 | William Blackstone - 1876 - 782 Seiten
...in point of law. Г *304 1 *Ajmm is not an idiot, (p) if he hath any glimmering of reason, so ' ' -" that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters. Km a man who is born deaf, dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law as in th" same state with an idiot... | |
 | Mary Swift Lamson - 1878 - 440 Seiten
...an idiot, if he hath any glimmerings of reason so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses... | |
 | Mary Swift Lamson - 1878 - 440 Seiten
...an idiot, if he hath any glimmerings of reason so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses... | |
 | Isaac Edwards - 1878 - 738 Seiten
...shall be for his profit and loss ; for ho " is not an idiot if he hath any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters."3 Lunatics are such as occasionally labor under fits of insanity, and can enter into contracts... | |
 | Thomas Jarman - 1880 - 908 Seiten
...law, the sufferer was classed as an idiot. Even Blackstone adopted thU then prevalent error. He says: "But a man who is born deaf, dumb and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot: he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - 1880 - 824 Seiten
...never likely to attain any : but none is to be held such who hath any glimmering of reason (c), BO that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters (d). The custody of an idiot and of his lands (z) Stat. 1 Edw. 6, c. 12. " senses which furnish the... | |
 | Daniel Hack Tuke - 1882 - 626 Seiten
...presumed never likely to attain any." " He is not an idiot if he hath any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters." From such a condition the law clearly distinguished the lunatic, or non compos mentis, who is " one... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - 1883 - 770 Seiten
...(what is). 1 Ired. (NC) L. 76, 87. (what is not). 8 Ired. (NC) L. 407, 412. DEAF AND DUMB.-A man that is born deaf, dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same stole as an idiot, he being supposed incapable of any understanding. (1 Bl. Com. 304.) Nevertheless,... | |
 | 1884 - 676 Seiten
...give evidence. But on p. 304 we read : " A man is not an idiot if he hath any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters." We may, I think, therefore fairly cite Blackstone as not shutting out from personal rights such imbeciles... | |
 | Henry Allyn Haigh - 1887 - 569 Seiten
...is not an idiot if he has any glimmer of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or such common matters; but a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law in the same light as an idiot. Ignoramus. "We are ignorant" — written on a bill of indictment by... | |
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A man is not an idiot, if he hath any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed... 
