INDEX.

ABERRATIONS,

mental, in relation to drunkenness, § 351

ABSINTHE,

indulgence in, effects of, 351.

ACCELERATION OF PROCESSES, 263.

ACCIDENTAL DRUNKARD, 353.

ACCESS TO INSANE PATIENT,

means of gaining, 469.

ACCUSED,

protection of, 1.

ACQUIRED PROPENSITIES, 176.

ACT,

nature of, to be considered in directing capacity, 388.

ACTION

for goods sold, lunacy no defence, 154.

for necessaries supplied to wife of lunatic, 154.
for trespass, somnambulist liable to, 345.

ACTIVE AND SPECULATIVE THOUGHT
in relation to insanity, 13.

ACTS

done during iucid intervals, law as to, 396.

ACUTE DEMENTIA, 287.

ACUTE DIPSOMANIA, 217.

ACUTE MELANCHOLIA, 271.
physical symptoms of, 272.

ADMISSION

of patients into asylums, regulations as to, 6.

of plea of insanity, diversity of rules as to, 139.

ADMISSIBILITY OF THE EVIDENCE OF THE INSANE, 433.
ADULTERY

by an insane person, in relation to divorce, 306, note.
AFFECTIONS

in relation to simulated insanity, 413.
change in insanity, 453.

AFFIDAVIT,

as to lunacy, used at commission, 29.
of a lunatic, 462.

evidence necessary to support, 473.

AGE,

legal, § 11.

extreme, no présumption of unsoundness from, 30.
as a cause of insanity, 40.

in relation to suicide, 235.

infirmity of, distinguished from dementia, 280.

extreme, and will-making, 298.

ALCOHOL,

effects of, 66.

poisoning by, 347.

ALLOWABLE QUESTIONS,

to put to medical experts, 50C.

AMENTIA,

kinds of, 64.

in relation to commissions of lunacy, 95.

AMERICAN LAW,

rule as to responsibility, 7.

as to rule of responsibility as to criminal, 133.

rule as to delusion in relation to will-making, 24, 151.
as to impulsive or moral insanity, 258.

rule as to admitting proof of insanity of relatives, 525.
ANESTHESIA,

in relation to mania, 107.

ANGER AND PUNISHMENT, 245.

ANIMALS DISTINGUISHED FROM MEN, 163.
ANNUITIES,

purchased by lunatics, law as to, 154.
ANSWERS OF THE JUDGES

to questions of the House of Lords, 10

APHASIA, 375.

legal relations of, 376.

in relation to questions of capacity, 377.
APHONIA, 375.

APOPLEXY,

a cause of insanity, 48.

APPETITE,

symptoms of mania in connection with, 108.
APPORTIONMENT OF PUNISHMENT

to degree of guilt, impossible, 21.

ARBITRARY DISTINCTIONS,
necessary in law, 11.

ARSON, 220.

in connection with insanity, 221.

in connection with delusions, 225.

ARTICLE STOLEN,

value of, considered in relation to kleptomania, 198.

ASSIGNED MOTIVES FOR SUICIDE, 239.

ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS, 171–281.

ASYLUM ATTENDANTS, 435.

ASYLUMS,

inspection of, 6.

ATROCITY OF CRIME,

in connection with insanity, 3.

ATTENDANTS IN ASYLUMS, 435.

ATTENTION,

nature of, § 49.

and memory, 171, 44

AURA EPILEPTIC, 309.
AUTOMATIC ACTS, 171.
movements. 255.

thinking, 255.

AVARICE AND HOARDING,

diseased propensity, 181.

BASIS OF CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL DISEASES, 57.
BELIEF OF EXPERT WITNESS

in relation to evidence, 491.

injuries to, causes of insanity, 48.

tumors in, causes of insanity, 48.
disease and insanity, 221.

BRIGHT OBJECTS,

theft of, by kleptomaniacs, 202.

BUCKNILL'S CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL DISEASES, 62.
criticism on Homicidal Bill, 10, noto, Appendix.

BUNGLING EXECUTION OF CRIME

no proof of insanity, 194.

BURDEN OF PROOF,

in cases of suicide and disputed policy of insurance, 262.
in cases of drunkenness, 366.

as to lucid intervals, 395.

in relation to wills, 517.

where insanity has been proved to exist, 518.

in connection with contracts, 519.

in criminal cases, 520.

CAGOTS, 68.

CANIDAY LAW

as to habitual drunkards, 374.

CAPACITY,

for knowing and refraining, 13, note.

of the insane, wills, 22.

degree of, required to make will valid, 23, 293
to make will, in relation to delusions, 26.
to contract, 25.

CAPACITY,

to contract, in relation to delusion, § 26.

to contract, in relation to mania, 142.

to contract, in relation to delusion, 149, 153.

to contract, American rule as to, 151.

to contract, American principles of law as to, 152.
to contract, of the morally insane, 259.

in relation to dementia, 293.

and eccentricity, 296.

mental fallacies, tests of, 302.
of dement to contract, 304.

in relation to delirium, 387.

of drunkards to exersise rights of citizens, 361.
of imbeciles to contract, 89, 93.

of imbeciles, to make wills, 94.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT,

in relation to responsibility, 2.

CARNAL CONNECTION,

idiot can consent to, 82.

CATALEPSY AND SOMNAMBULISM, 331.
CAUSATION AND CLASSIFICATION
of insanity, 63.

CAUSES OF INSANITY, 32.

difficulty of discovering, 33.
classification of, 34.

remote or predisposing,

in relation to sex, 39.

in relation to age, 40.

35, 36, 38.

in relation to education, 41.

in relation to hereditary tendency, 42.
proximate or exciting, 48.

CAUSES OF EPIDEMIC INSANITY, 50.

CAUSES OF IDIOCY, 66.

CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENT,

in relation to imbecility, 85.

CERTIFICATE,

as to the filling up of, 474.

of medical men necessary to detention of lunatics, 29.
of medical men, evidence necessary to support, 474.
CHANCELLOR, LORD,

care of lunatics, 28.

CHARACTER, 177.
change in, 179.

CHILDREN

exempted from punishment on same grounds as insane, 18.

CHOICE

necessary to idea of responsibility, 17, 85.
healthy, psychology of, 169.

CHOREA,

in relation to epilepsy, 308.

CHRONIC DIPSOMANIA, 219.
CHRONIC DEMENTIA, 287.
CIRCUMVENTION, 300.

CIVIL CAPACITY

of the insane, 22.

degree of, required to make will valid, 23, 24.
degree of, required to enter into contract, 25.
of the emotional insane, 259.

of drunkards, 361.