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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Act of 1873, s. 17, that there should not be transferred to or vested in the High Court of Justice any juris- diction usually vested in the Lord Chancellor or in the Lords Justices of Appeal in Chancery, or either of them, in relation to the custody of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind; and the Act of 1875, s. 7, enacts that any such jurisdiction usually vested in the Lords Justices of Appeal in Chancery, or either of them, shall be exer- cis'ed by such judge or judges of the High Court of Justice or Court of Appeal as may be intrusted there- with by the sign-manual of the Sovereign, subject to a proviso reserving the jurisdiction to each of the ex- isting Lords Justices of Appeal in Chancery, so long as he shall continue to be a judge of the Court of Ap- peal, and shall be intrusted as aforesaid. Appeal:]—By the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of 1873, s. 18, all jurisdiction vested in or capable of being exercised by Her Majesty in Council, or the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, upon appeal from any order in lunacy made by the Lord Chancellor or any other person having jurisdic- tion in lunacy, is transferred to the Court of Appeal established by that Act. Officers in L?macj/.]—Thete are two Masters in Lu- nacy and one Registrar in Lunacy, with such number of officers, clerks, and messengers as may be sanc- tioned by the Lord Chancellor and the Lords of the Treasury (A, ss. 6, 10, 15); and also three Visitors of Lunatics (A,s. i6),(f) and such clerks as may from time to time be appointed by the Lord Chancellor (B, s. 25). The persons who held similar offices when the first Act was passed were continued in office; but in case ■of vacancies, it is provided that the Masters in Lunacy are to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, to be (f) The Act of 1S53, ss. 22, 23, authorised the appointment of a Secretary to the Visitors; but this office has been aboHshed by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of 1875, s. 31.