The lunacy acts : containing all the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums, and the commissioners in lunacy with an introductory commentary, notes to the statutes, including references to decided cases, and a copious index / by Danby P. Fry.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1877
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Credit: The lunacy acts : containing all the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums, and the commissioners in lunacy with an introductory commentary, notes to the statutes, including references to decided cases, and a copious index / by Danby P. Fry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only be redressed, if erroneous, by writ of error in the regular course of law. Present practice^—Since Blackstone wrote, however, important changes in the law have taken place from time to time with regard to the mode of proceeding. The Act i6 & 17 Vict. c. 70, which was passed in 1853, for the regulation of proceedings under com- missions of lunacy, and the consolidation and amend- ment of the Acts respecting lunatics so found by in- quisition, and their estates, and which repealed the previous statutes relating to the same matters (s. i and sched. i), has itself been amended by the statute 25 & 26 Vict. c. 86, which was passed in 1862, and also to some extent by the Supreme Court of Judica- ture Acts of 1873 and 1875; and these Acts, taken to- gether, comprise the chief provisions of the existing law upon the subject. Objects of the ^f^J.]—The objects for which the first-mentioned statute (16 & 17 Vict. c. 70) was en- acted are thus described in the preamble :— For removing or diminishing the delays and ex- penses now attending on the execution of commis- sions in the nature of writs de hmatico inquirendo, and the proceedings consequent on inquisitions taken thereon; . And for regulating and amendmg the practice and course of procedure in matters of lunacy; And for consolidating and amending the several Acts of Parliament respecting the care and manage- ment of the persons and estates of lunatics so found by inquisition, and the appointments, duties, and sala- ries of officers in lunacy. The second Act (25 & 26 Vict. c. 86) amends the provisions of the first, but in furtherance of the same general objects. For brevity's sake the two Acts will be referred to in the present chapter by the letters A and B- i.e., A will represent the first Act (16 and 17 Vict, c! 70), and B the second Act (25 & 26 Vict, c. 86).