 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1911 - 954 Seiten
...Blackstone, the definition given is : "A man is not an idiot if he hath any gliiuraerine of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters." "In Chitty's Medical Jurisprudence, an 'idiot' is Dec., 774, the court on this subject said : "In Chitty's... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1879 - 744 Seiten
...presumed never likely to attain any." "A man is not an idiot, if he have any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters." 1 Black. Comm. 302, 303. It is but justice, however, that this testimony should be allowed the benefit... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1979 - 497 Seiten
...feodal tenures, which has been fince abolimed °. Yet few inftances can be given of the oppreflive exertion of it, fince it feldom happens that a jury...upon by the law as in the fame ftate with an idiot q ; he being fuppofed incapable of underftanding, as wanting thofe fenfes which farnifh the human mind... | |
 | William Blackstone - 2002 - 500 Seiten
...the opprcfTive exertion of it, fince it feldom happens that a jury finds a man an idiot a natrvitate, but only non compos mentis from fome particular time...upon by the law as in the fame ftate with an idiot q ; he being fuppofed incapable of undemanding, as wanting thofe fenfes which furnifh the human mind... | |
 | Richard Burn - 2004 - 904 Seiten
...likely to attain any. i Black. 302. A man is not an idiot, if he hath any glimmering of rea.* fon, fo that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters. Id. 304. By the old common law, there is a writ de idiota inquirendo, directed to the fheriff, to inquire... | |
 | 1895 - 492 Seiten
...Blackstone, avers (Cornm. BI p. 304) that 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...who is born deaf, dumb and blind is looked upon by law in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting... | |
 | 1855 - 788 Seiten
...is no solid ground for the principle of law on the subject, as laid down by Blacksfone, that — " 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... | |
 | 1884 - 522 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... | |
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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... 
