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" is very difficult to define the invisible line that divides perfect " and partial insanity; but it must rest upon circumstances duly " to be weighed and considered both by the judge and jury, lest on " the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards... "
Principles of Forensic Medicine - Page 215
by William Augustus Guy, David Ferrier - 1875 - 703 pages
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 19

1811 - 600 pages
...jury, • lest on the one side tht-ie be a hind of inhumanity towards the ' defects of human nature 5 or, on the other side, too great an ' indulgence given to great crimes. ' The arguments of Mr Erskine are addressed to the proper means of applying this rule $ and they arc,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 19

1811 - 546 pages
...adds, s it must rest upon circumstances, * duly to be weighed and considered both by judge and jury, *,lest on the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards tucj ' detects of human nature ; or, on the cither side, too great an « indulgence given to great...
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Speeches of Lord Erskine, when at the Bar, on Miscellaneous Subjects, Volume 5

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1812 - 278 pages
...but it must *( rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and " considered both by Judge and Jury, lest on the " one side there be a kind of inhumanity...*' too great an indulgence given to great crimes." Nothing, Gentlemen, can be more accurately hor more humanely expressed ; but the application of the...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 5

James Ridgway - 1812 - 282 pages
...insanity; but it must " rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and " considered both by Judge and Jury, lest on the " one side there be a kind of inhumanity..." too great an indulgence given to great crimes." Nothing, Gentlemen, can be more accurately nor more humanely expressed ; but the application of the...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 8

Enos Bronson - 1812 - 556 pages
...adds, ' it must rest upon circumstances, duly to be weighed and considered both by judge and jury, lest on the one side there be a kind of inhumanity...side, too great an indulgence given to great crimes.' The arguments of Mr. Erskine are addressed to the proper means of applying this rule ; and they are,...
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Speeches of Lord Erskine, when at the Bar, on Miscellaneous Subjects, Volume 5

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1812 - 282 pages
...; but it must " rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and " considered both by Judge and Jury, lest on the " one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the ff defects of human nature ; or, on the other side, *' too great an indulgence given to great crimes."...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813 - 634 pages
...: but it " must rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and con" sidered both by Judge and Jury, lest on the one side there be " a kind of inhumanity towards the defects of human nature : But notwithstanding the precision with which this great author points out the different kinds of...
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Speeches of Lord Erskine, when at the Bar: On Miscellaneous Subjects

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813 - 278 pages
...judge and jury, lest on the one side there be 9 " kind of inhumanity towards the defects of hu" man nature; or, on the other side, too great an '' indulgence given to great crimes." Nothing, gentlemen, can be more accurately nor more humanely expressed; but the application of the...
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Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...

Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1818 - 748 pages
...but it must rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and considered, both by the judge and jury, lest, on the one side, there be a Kind of inhumanity towards the defects of human nature; or, or the other side, too great an indulgence given to great crimes. The best measure that lean think...
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A Treatise on the Law of Idiocy and Lunacy

Anthony Highmore - 1822 - 224 pages
...says, it must rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and considered both by the judge and the jury, lest on the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the defect of human nature, or on the other side too great an indulgence given to great crimes : and the...
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