Reports of Cases Decided in the Ecclesiastical Courts at Doctors' Commons

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Seite 292 - ... or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Seite 184 - ... shall be living at the time of the death of the testator, such devise or bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Seite 280 - Act, if the signature shall be so placed at or after, or following, or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall be apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by such his signature to the writing signed as his will...
Seite 31 - ... absurd to speak of this as a really sound mind (a mind sound when the subject of the delusion is not presented), as it would be to say that a person had not the gout, because, his attention being diverted from the pain by some more powerful sensation by which the person...
Seite 339 - That no Criminal Suit or Proceeding against a Clerk in Holy Orders of the United Church of England and Ireland for any Offence against the Laws Ecclesiastical shall be instituted in any Ecclesiastical Court otherwise than is herein-before enacted or provided.
Seite 30 - They have acquired a name — the disease called familiarly, as •well as by physicians, ' monomania,' on the supposition of its being confined, which it rarely is, to a single faculty or exercise of the mind. A person shall be of sound mind, to all appearance, upon all subjects save one or two, and on these he shall be subject to illusions, mistaking for realities the suggestions of his imagination.
Seite 31 - Nay, he may be of unsound mind when his imagination is employed on some subjects, in making some combinations, and sound when making others, or making one single kind of combination. Thus he may not believe all his fancies to be realities, but only some or one. Of such a person we usually predicate that he is of unsound mind only upon certain points. I have qualified the proposition thus on purpose ; because, if the being or essence which we term the mind is unsound on one subject, provided that...
Seite 29 - ... we mean to speak of the mind acting variously, that is, remembering, fancying, reflecting, the same mind in all these operations being the agent. We, therefore, cannot in any correctness of language speak of general or partial insanity ; but we may most accurately speak of the mind exerting itself in consciousness without cloud or imperfection, but being morbid when it fancies ; and so its owner may have a diseased imagination, or the imagination may not be diseased, and yet the memory may be...
Seite 135 - It is not necessary to prove that the adultery with which a party is charged should have occurred at any particular time and place. The court must be satisfied that a criminal attachment subsisted between the parties, and that opportunities occurred when the intercourse, in which it is satisfied the parties intended to indulge, might with ordinary facility have taken place.
Seite 342 - And be it enacted, that every suit or proceeding against any such clerk in holy orders for any offence against the laws ecclesiastical shall be commenced within two years after the commission of the offence in respect of which the suit or proceeding shall be instituted, and not afterwards : provided always, that whenever any such suit or proceeding shall be brought in respect of an offence for which a conviction shall have been obtained in any court of common law, such suit or proceeding may...

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