Lunacy law : 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, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers.

  • Danby Palmer Fry
Date:
1890
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Credit: Lunacy law : 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, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    members of the same family, and may in any case use in evidence in the matter of one member of a family eviilenee filed in t'^er the matter of any other member of the same family. matter. 42. The Masters may direct that several parties ap- Power to pearing before them by different solicitors shall appear by determine the same solicitor, or that several parties appeariu(? before ^or^j^re tT' them by the same solicitor shall appear by different represent the solicitors. Where parties directed to appear by the same parties, solicitor cannot agree upon the solicitor to represent them the Master may nominate the solicitor, and if any of such parties insists upon appearing by a different solicitor he shall do so at his own cost. 43. If the Masters are of opinion that any application Masters to ought not to be granted, or that any inquiry was unneces- certify if any sary, they shall decide whether the application or inquiry jfj/pj-opej. ^j. was proper, and if they decide in the affirmative the any inquiry proper costs of the application or inquiry shall be allowed unnecessary, on taxation by virtue of their note, but if they decide in the negative the Judge shall direct by whom and in what manner the costs are to be borne. 44. The Masters may receive any deed or security Power to belonging to a lunatic, and may by certificate give deeds liberty for payment or transfer into Court of any money and securities, or stock belonging to a lunatic. 45. Any person in whose custody or control any testa- Liberty to mentary paper of the lunatic is shall be at liberty to deposit will deposit the same in the office of the Masters upon oath, as ^^tl^Masters they may direct, there to remain for safe custody. 46. On the death of a lunatic or a supersedeas being On death of issued, the Masters shall ascertain and certify who is ||^(|]'*^ entitled to receive any funds in Court belonging to the ^g^^^^^lg^'^ lunatic, or any documents or effects relating to or forming posited with part of his estate deposited in their office for safe custody, Masters to be and they shall prepare the minutes of an Order for pay- P'l^id and ment, transfer, and delivery of the same to the person '^^^^^^^I'^d- entitled thereto, and the Judge may make an Order for payment, transfer, and delivery to the person certified to be so entitled. 47. The Masters may on being satisfied of a lunatic's On death death without Order open and read any document depo- sited with them purporting or alleged to contain any ^^'^^^''^^q™'^'^ testamentary disposition made by him for the purpose of ascertaining who is therein nominated executor thereof, and whether any direction is contained therein concerning his funeral or place of interment, and may deliver the document to the proper officer of the Probite Division to be dealt with according to law.