Unsoundness of Mind, in Its Legal and Medical Considerati...
Williams, Joseph William Hume Excerpt from Unsoundness of Mind, in Its Legal and Medical Consideration
Though for judicial purposes no other course is practical, yet in its operation, when necessity arises, and special facts in evidence are considered, the observation of Lord Cairns in Fulton v. Andrew 1 not unusually prevails: I should in this case, as indeed in all others, greatly deprecate the introduc tion or creation of fixed and unyielding rules of law which are not...