A treatise on the law of idiocy and lunacy : to which is subjoined an appendix, containing the practice of the Court of Chancery on this subject, and some useful practical forms / By A. Highmore, solicitor.

  • Highmore, A. (Anthony), Jr., 1758-1829.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A treatise on the law of idiocy and lunacy : to which is subjoined an appendix, containing the practice of the Court of Chancery on this subject, and some useful practical forms / By A. Highmore, solicitor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if the work can be amended, the student and myself may profit by the lash of cri- ticism. I have ventured to avoid what is an es- sential in professional writings, the names of recent cases ; if I have suppressed this source of reference with inconvenience to the reader, he must accept the apology of% delicacy which the suJbject offers, and w ill be apprised, from this and from the brevity with which some of the casjes are mentioned, that my chief design is, to lead him to search the reports themselves ra- ther than to rest upon the summary here given of the determinations ; and to facili- tate his search I have endeavoured to give. % ail the references with accuracy. It will appear by this work that the in- firmities on which it treats arise either from a defect at birth, or from constitu- tional -