 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1827 - 572 pages
...See Severley'i Case, 4 Coke, 123 ; where the description is still more general and comprehensive: " he, who was of " good and sound memory, " and by the visitation of " God has lost it." " Lunaticus" which, though derived from a vulgar error, gives the title to the modern, proceeding by... | |
 | Henry Maddock - 1827 - 520 pages
...what amouuts to Insanity (a). ( 1 ) Nan Compos Mentis has been defined by Lord Coke, to be a person '' who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God has lost it (b) ;" and in another Work, two sorts of Persons are considered by Lord Coke to be non compos mentis... | |
 | Harding Grant - 1829 - 632 pages
...entitled. Ibid. 726. Won compos mentis has been defined by Lord Chief Justice Coke to be a person " who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God has lost it;" and two sorts of persons are considered by him to be mm compos mentis, viz. 1. Id iota, which, from... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1836 - 580 pages
...heirs." And in Beverly's case, 4 Co. 124, a non compos mentis of the second sort, is described to be " he who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God lost it." Now, it must be admitted, that there are various degrees of memory and understanding, from... | |
 | Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1836 - 828 pages
...apprehend the disability applies exclusively to such. Lord Coke defines non compos mentis, "to be a person who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God had lost it," or, " he that by sickness, grief, or other accident, wholly loseth his understanding."... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1839 - 658 pages
...Lord Coke has enumerated four different classes of persons, who are deemed in law to be non compotes mentis. The first is an idiot, or fool natural; the...third is a lunatic, lunaticus, qui gaudet lucidis intervals, and sometimes is of good and sound memory, and sometimes non compos mentis; and the fourth... | |
 | Charles L. Clarke, New York (State). Court of Chancery - 1841 - 640 pages
...various classes of legal imbeciles, it is that of a non compos mentis, which is defined, " to be a person who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God hath lost it, or by sickness, grief or other accident hath wholly lost his understanding." This is... | |
 | Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - 1852 - 770 pages
...[1] Lord Coke enumerates four different classes of persons who are deemed in law to be non compota mentis. The first is an idiot or fool natural ; the...visitation of God has lost it ; the third is a lunatic, and sometimes is of good and sound memory, and sometimes поп сотроа mentis; and the fourth... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1853 - 890 pages
...Lord Coke has enumerated four different classes of persons who are deemed in law to be nan compotes mentis. The first is an idiot, or fool natural ; the...visitation of God has lost it ; the third is a lunatic, lunations, qui gandet lucidis intervallis, and sometimes is of a good and sound memory, and sometimes... | |
 | Joseph Elmer - 1864 - 440 pages
...manners of non compos mentis," to whom the Royal Prerogative extends, 1. Idiot or fool natural. 2. He who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God has lost it. 3. Lunaticus, qui gaudet lucidis intervallis, and sometimes is of good and sound memory, and sometimes... | |
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The first is nn idiot or fool natural; the second is he who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God has lost it... 
