 ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality...  Overland Monthly - Page 1671883Full view - About this book
 | Jeffrey Wayne Vincoli - 2019 - 1112 pages
...from disease of the mind as not to know the nature or quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did ]t. mnemonic Any formal technique for aiding in memory storage or recall. MNPS See minimum navigation performance... | |
 | Richard Rogers, Daniel W. Shuman - 2000 - 388 pages
...(see Quen, I978). less the defendant proved that at the time of the commission of the offense that he was "laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong"... | |
 | Alec Buchanan - 2000 - 166 pages
...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong' (R. v. M'Naghten at 210). Ironically, as Walker has pointed out, if these criteria had been strictly... | |
 | Rafael E. Núñez, Rafael Núñez, Walter J. Freeman - 1999 - 310 pages
...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.' In the terms of the present analysis, for behaviour to be insane the neural components of the limbic... | |
 | Elyn R. Saks, Stephen H. Behnke - 2000 - 284 pages
...result of mental illness, he did not know "the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong" (M'Naghten's Case 1843, 722). The balance of tests for insanity generally look to a combination of... | |
 | Jay M. Feinman - 2000 - 380 pages
...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. The M'Naghten rule was widely adopted and is in effect in one form or another in about half of the... | |
 | J. E. R. Staddon - 2001 - 234 pages
...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." (See, for example, Livermore and Meehl, 1 967,i Clearly, the M'Naghten rule implies that the perpetrator... | |
 | Norman J. Finkel - 2001 - 404 pages
...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. 2. Where a person labors under partial delusions only and is not in other respects insane, and commits... | |
 | Alan Norrie - 2001 - 308 pages
...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or. if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. (M'Naghten 's Case (l843) at 2l0) The Rules have been criticised as being, at one level, too broad... | |
 | Winston Davis - 2001 - 324 pages
...was legally insane if he did "not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." 15 The emphasis on knowledge in the M'Naghten Rule was nothing new in English law. Rex v. Arnold (1724)... | |
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