Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers.

  • Fry, Danby P. (Danby Palmer), 1818-1903.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the peace, or the court of quarter sessions, or one of the judges of her Majesty's courts in Westminster Hall: Appeal against Order for Maintenance. Provided always, that the churchwardens and overseers of the parish in which the justices shall adjudge any insane person or dangerous idiot to be settled may appeal against any such order to the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the county where such order shall be made, in like manner and under like restrictions and regulations as against any order of removal,^ giving reasonable notice thereof to the clerk of the peace of the county, riding, or division, or to the town clerk of the city, borough, or place, as the case may be, upon whose rates the burden of maintaining such insane person or dangerous idiot may fall, if such order should be invalid, and such clerk of the peace or town clerk shall be respondent in such appeal, which appeal the justices of the peace assembled at the said general quarter sessions are h-ereby authorised and empowered to hear and determine, in the same manner as a])peals against orders of removal are now ^ heard and de- termined.^ 3. [Repealed in 1874 by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 96.] Ad not to alter Laws relating to the Discharge of recovered Lunatics. 4. And be it enacted, that nothing herein contained, except where otherwise expressly mentioned, shall alter the laws relating to the discharge of persons who may cease to be insane or dangerous idiots from any county lunatic asylum, public hospital, or house duly licensed for the reception of insane persons, nor authorise the removal by any parish officer of any poor person from such asylum, public hospital, or licensed house, without (i) The documents relating to the appeal should be sent or served by the treasurer or the superinten- dent of the asylum, and not by the clerk of the peace, or the town clerk, who is to be the respondent. —J?eg. V. Clerk of the Peace for York, W.R., 20 L. J., M. C, 18. {2) Notwithstanding the word now, it seems that the procedure in these cases is to be adapted to the changes which may be made from time to time with regard to appeals against orders of removal. See Reg. v. Newport (Salop) Uniott, 33 L. J., M. C, 155, 10 L. T., 384, relating to 3 & 4 Vict. c. 54, s. 5 (post), in which similar language is used ; and see also Reg. v. Justices of Glamorganshire, 13 Q. B., 561, 18 L. J., M. C, 118.