The Medico-legal Journal, Volume 12Clark Bell Medico-Legal Journal Association, 1894 - Medical jurisprudence |
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... body or mind . A vast number of other suits depend upon the mental capacity of the principal actor . These cases , thick upon every docket , require the aid of medical science for their determination . Indeed , without such aid a ...
... body or mind . A vast number of other suits depend upon the mental capacity of the principal actor . These cases , thick upon every docket , require the aid of medical science for their determination . Indeed , without such aid a ...
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... body . They then declared they had examined the stains sufficiently to be able to state they undoubtedly were of human blood . The witnesses for the defense declared that the corpuscles of blood dried on cloth- ing could not , in the ...
... body . They then declared they had examined the stains sufficiently to be able to state they undoubtedly were of human blood . The witnesses for the defense declared that the corpuscles of blood dried on cloth- ing could not , in the ...
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... medicine is not exact science ; that the causes and courses of diseases of the body and mind are hidden from inspection and can only be surmised . But these allowances do not , to the lawyer's mind , MEDICAL WITNESSES . 7.
... medicine is not exact science ; that the causes and courses of diseases of the body and mind are hidden from inspection and can only be surmised . But these allowances do not , to the lawyer's mind , MEDICAL WITNESSES . 7.
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... body of the profession refuse to adopt them . This consensus of opinion is what the courts desire . Med- ical witnesses ought to know that much about their science -ought to know what its professors as a body believe to be the truth ...
... body of the profession refuse to adopt them . This consensus of opinion is what the courts desire . Med- ical witnesses ought to know that much about their science -ought to know what its professors as a body believe to be the truth ...
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... body of the profession . A court of law is no place for the discussion or determination of these different claims and theories . Such a court is not qualified to ren- der judgment on them . It expects the medical profession to settle ...
... body of the profession . A court of law is no place for the discussion or determination of these different claims and theories . Such a court is not qualified to ren- der judgment on them . It expects the medical profession to settle ...
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Page 127 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 383 - It is ever to be kept in mind that a good name, such as has now been sketched, is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents ; it is not created by external advantages ; it is no necessary appendage of birth, or wealth, or talents, or station ; but the result of one's own endeavors, — the fruit and reward of good principles, manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.
Page 209 - The prevention or restraint of the commission or continuance of acts contrary to law and prejudicial to the interests of the community, or the rights of individuals.
Page 496 - It was impossible,' she says, ' by word or act to be quick enough to meet the supposed emergency ; and, in fact, I found I could not move, for such intense pain came on in the ankle corresponding to the one which I thought the boy would have injured, that I could only put my hand on it to lessen its extreme painfulness.
Page 208 - And the legislature shall vest in the said courts such other powers to grant relief in equity as shall be found necessary; and may, from time to time, enlarge or diminish those powers, or vest them in such other courts as they shall judge proper for the due administration of justice.
Page 494 - Phantasms of the Living," which has been reissued in abridged form.1 Suffice it to say that the committee expressed its considered opinion that "between deaths and apparitions of the dying person a connection exists which is not due to chance alone.
Page 198 - That no man shall, by any ways or means, in word or deed, affront or wrong any Indian but he shall incur the same penalty of the law as if he had committed it against his fellow planter...
Page 211 - Whenever any of the qualified electors of this commonwealth shall be in actual military service, under a requisition from the President of the United States, or by the authority of this commonwealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections by the citizens, under such regulations as are, or shall be. prescribed by law, as fully as it" they were present at their usual places of election.
Page 512 - I of this law provided that no person should be committed to or confined as a patient in any asylum, public or private, or in any institution, home or retreat for the care and treatment of the insane, except upon the certificate of two physicians, under oath, setting forth the insanity of such person.
Page 201 - The Jurisdiction of the supreme court shall extend over the state, and the judges thereof shall, by virtue of their offices, be justices of oyer and terminer and general Jail delivery in the several counties; they shall have original Jurisdiction in cases of injunction where a corporation is a.