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CHAPTER XVII. THE LEGAL RELATIONS OF DRUNKENNESS.
§ 361. Drunkenness as affecting Civil Capacity.
§ 362. Liability of Drunk Persons.
Effect of Drunkenness upon Deed.
363.
§ 364.
Drunk Person liable for Torts.
§ 365.
§ 366.
§ 367.
Incapacity produced by Medicines.
Effect of Drunkenness upon Testamentary Capacity.
The Burden of Proof.
§ 368. Drunkenness as affecting Responsibility.
§ 369. Drunkenness as affecting Intention or Malice.
§ 370. Responsibility of Persons whose Drunkenness is Involuntary.
371. Responsibility of those whose Insanity is caused by Drunkenness.
§ 372. Drunkenness the remote cause of Insanity.
373. Responsibility of Persons laboring under Delirium Tremens.
374. The Restraint of Drunkards.
CHAPTER XVIII.-APHASIA AND APHONIA.
375. The nature of Aphasia and Aphonia.
376. The necessity for considering the Legal Relations of Aphasia.
§ 377. The Capacity of Aphasies.
§ 385.
§ 386.
The caution with which Wills made during an interval of Delirium is
to be received.
As to Contracts entered into during intervals of Delirium.
$390. The Law of Periodicity.
§ 391. Lucid Intervals.
§ 392. Intermissions and Remissions.
§ 393. Legal Holdings with reference to Lucid Intervals.
394. The Proof of Lucid Intervals in cases of Idiocy and Dementia.
395. The Burden of Proof.
$396. The law with regard to acts done during Lucid Intervals.
§ 397. Distinction between Lucid Intervals in Insanity and in Delirium.
CHAPTER XXI.-FEIGNED INSANITY.
$398. Want of Scientific Training of Medical Men has rendered the Detec
§ 409.
§ 410.
Experienced Observation will generally detect Feigned Insai
Feigned Mania-Tendency to Over-act. *
§ 411.
§ 412.
Simulation of Chronic Mania.
Further Rules for the Detection of Feigned Disease.
§ 420.
Simulated Disease may lead to Real Disease.
$421. Feigned Melancholia.
422. Feigned Moral Mania.
CHAPTER XXII.-CONCEALED INSANITY.
§ 425.
§ 426.
Difficulty of distinguishing between Delusions and Sane Beliefs.
Insune Reticence will resist even cross-examination.
CHAPTER XXIII.-THE ADMISSIBILITY OF THE EVIDENCE OF
THE INSANE.
$433. The importance of the subject considered.
§ 434. Illustration of these principles.
§ 435. Attendants in Asylums.
§ 46. The nature of Evidence.
§ 437.
Grounds of the Admissibility or Inadmissibility of Evidence.
§ 438. Rule of Indian Law as to the Competency of a Witness.
3 440.
$ 441.
As to the Admissibility of the Evidence of the Deaf and Dumb.
Lunatic a competent Witness during a Lucid Interval.
§ 442.
§ 443.
The question of Evidence given during a Lucid Interval considered.
Medical Opinions as to the Rule of Law.
§ 445.
The Value of the Testimony of Idiots and Imbeciles.
§ 446.
The question of Credibility, how to be determined by a Jury.
$ 417. Circumstances and their influence upon Evidence given.
§ 448. The Unveracity of Imbeciles.
§ 449. The Psychology of this Unveracity.
$450. The Value of the Testimony of Dements.
§ 451.
§ 452.
§ 453.
$454.
The Value of the Testimony of Persons laboring under Partial Mania.
The Influence of Delusional Beliefs upon the Capacity of Witnesses.
Difficulty of arriving at a conclusion as to Credibility of Testimony.
Necessity for Corroboration.
$455. Evidence of Competency.
§ 456.
The Value of the Evidence of Persons laboring under Mania.
§ 457. General question of the relation between Insanity and Testimony con- sidered.
458. The case of Regina v. Hill.
§ 459.
6 460.
§ 461.
§ 462.
As to the Cause of Error in all Testimony.
The Value of the Testimony of Melancholics.
Depositions of Insane Persons may be Read.
As to Affidavit of Lunatic.
§ 453. Effect of Inquisition of Lunacy on Evidence.
§ 461. Habeas Corpus to bring up a Lunatic.
CHAPTER XXIV.-ON THE EXAMINATION OF PERSONS SUPPOSED
TO BE OF UNSOUND MIND.
$465. The Difficulty of Diagnosis.
§ 466. The Method of Examination.
467.
$468.
§ 469.
§ 470
471.
§ 472.
§ 473.
§ 474
§ 475.
Conversation with Relatives and Friends of Patient-Difficulties of
Investigation.
General Rule as to Information received from Friends and Relatives.
Means of Gaining Access to Patient.
Inspection of Patient.
Conversation with the Patient.
Examination of Letters to Discover the Insanity of an Individual.
Evidence necessary to support Affidavit, and that which must be given
in Certificate.
As to the Filling up of Certificates.
General Rule for the Guidance of Medical Men who conduct Examina-
tions of Insane Persons.
§ 476. The Prognosis of Insanity.
$477. Of the Statistics of Recoveries.
478. Prognosis generally.
§ 479. As to Recovery.
$480. The Tendency to Recurrence.
481. The Slowness of Cure.
§ 482. As to the Signs of Recovery.
CHAPTER XXV.-MEDICAL EXPERTS.
§ 483. The Claims of Science.
§ 484.
485.
The Claims of Science in relation to Jurisprudence.
Object of this Chapter.
$486. The Weight attached to the Evidence of Skilled Witnesses.
§ 487. The Reason for this Caution in the Reception of Skilled Testimony.
6488. Medical Estimate of its Worth.
§ 489. Testimony-Its Objects considered.
§ 490. Testimony of Experts.
495.
New Doctrine as to Skilled Witnesses..
§ 496. Cases in which Expert Evidence has been had recourse to.
§ 497. Experts-Opinion as to Case proved.
6498. Questions which may be put.
499. American Rule.
6 500. What Questions have been allowed.
501. Questions which may not be put directly may be put hypothetically.
§ 502. Objections to this Rule considered.
503. The Use of these Devices.
504. General Worth of such Testimony.
§ 505. Where Inquiry is as to Subject which does not require Skill.
$506. Medical Experts in Cases of Insanity.
507. The Use of Experts in such Cases.
§ 508. Witness may Refresh his Memory by means of Books.
§ 509. Diminishing Value of Expert's Testimony
$ 510. Manner.
ADVICE TO MEDICAL WITNESSES IN WITNESS-BOX.
511. Communications to Medical Men not privileged.
512. How Evidence ought to be given.
513. Use of Notes in the Witness-box.
6514. Tricks of Counsel.
CHAPTER XXVI.-PROOF OF INSANITY.
515. Scope of this Chapter.
516. Presumptions.
517. Burden of Proof in relation to Wills.
§ 518.
Burden of Proof where Insanity has been proved to-exist.
§ 519.
Burden of Proof in connection with Contracts.
§ 520.
Burden of Proof in Criminal Cases.
ý 521. Jury may judge of the Prisoner's State of Mind.
6 522. Procedure on trial of issue of Sanity or Insanity.
$523. Proof of Insanity-Hereditary Tendency.
§ 524. Proof of Hereditary Predisposition-Rule of Law.
ý 525. The American Rule as to the Admission of Proof of Insanity of Rel-
atives.