 | India - Contracts - 1878 - 710 pages
...Penal Code lays down a proposition which would be equally applicable to eiril and criminal law : " An act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness or of disease of mind by which a free determination of the will was excluded."] 13. Two or more persons... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 806 pages
...room enough for doubts and differences of opinion. The section of the latest German penal code is: "An act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness or of disease of mind, by which a free determination of the will was excluded." Not every disorder of... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Criminal liability - 1874 - 350 pages
...act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness or of disease of mind, by which a free determination of the will was excluded." Not every disorder of mind is exempt ; only such actual disease as excludes a free determination of... | |
 | Criticism - 1876 - 826 pages
...if the accused was in a state of madness at the time of the act." So in the German penal code, — "An act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness or of disease of mind by which a free determination of the will was excluded." And in New York law, —... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - Insanity (Law) - 1880 - 722 pages
...a state of madness at the time of the act." In Germany, the latest penal code has laid it down that "an act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness or of disease of mind by which a free determination of will was excluded." And the revised statutes of... | |
 | George Miller Beard - Psychology - 1882 - 144 pages
...the accused was in a state of madness at the time of the act." The German penal code reads thus : " An act is not punishable when the person at the time...of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness, or of disease of mind, by which a free determination of the will was excluded." If we wish to hang a baby... | |
 | George Miller Beard - Psychology - 1882 - 172 pages
...is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness, or of disease of mind, by which a free determination of the will was excluded." If we wish to hang a baby we must swear that it is not a baby but a dwarf; if we wish to hang a lunatic... | |
 | Richard Quain - Dictionaries - 1883 - 1858 pages
...German code puts responsibility upon tho sumo basis. ' An act is not punishable,' according to it, ' when the person at the time of doing it "was in a state of unconsciousness ; or of disease of the mind, whereby free- volition was prevented.' Mittermaier and Von KrafFt-Ebing sanction... | |
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An act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing it was in a state of unconsciousness or of disease of mind by which a free determination of the will was excluded. 
