 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 710 pages
...who believes supposed facts which have no existence except in his perverted imagination and which are against all evidence and probability, and conducts...logically, upon the assumption of their existence, is, so far as they are concerned, under an insane delusion. In re Shaw, 2 Redf. 107; In re White, 121... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 724 pages
...aside cases of dementia, or loss of mind and intellect, the true test of insanity is mental delusion. If a person persistently believes supposed facts,...existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion ; and delusion in that sense is insanity. Such a person is essentially mad or insane... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - Homeopathy - 1868 - 818 pages
...probability, believes supposed facts, which have no real existance except in his perverted imagination, and conducts himself, however logically, upon the...existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion; and delusion in that sense is insanity. Such a person is essentially mad or insane... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - Homeopathy - 1868 - 818 pages
...probability, believes supposed facts, which have no real existauce except in his perverted imagination, and conducts himself, however logically, upon the...existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion; and delusion in that sense is insanity. Such a person is essentially mad or- insane... | |
 | Reuben W. Van Pelt - Claims against decedents' estates - 1870 - 688 pages
...intellect, the true test of insanity is mental delusion. If a person persistently believes supposed fads which have no real existence, except in his perverted...existence, he is so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion ; a delusion in that sense is insanity ; such a person is essentially mail or msane... | |
 | California. Probate Court (San Francisco) - 1872 - 652 pages
...persistently believes supposed facts, which have no real existence, except in his perverted imagination, but against all evidence and probability, and conducts...existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion, is in this case, insanity. Such a person is especially mad or insane on these subjects,... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society of New York - Insanity (Law) - 1869 - 734 pages
...have no real existence except in his fevered imagination, and against all evidence and probabilit}', and conducts himself, however, logically upon the...existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion : and delusion in that sense is insanity" ("Abbott's NY Digest," vol. yii., 1863).... | |
 | Ohio State Medical Society - Medicine - 1874 - 444 pages
...have no real existence except in his fevered imagination and against all evidence and probability, ami conducts himself, however logically upon the assumption...existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a mor•bid delusion; and delusion in that sewse w insanity" Greanleaf, Ev. i, p. 464, says: " What constitutes... | |
 | John Proffatt - 1876 - 226 pages
...is thus adopted as a principle of decision in Seaman's Friend Society v. Hopper,* by Judge Denio : " If a person persistently believes supposed facts,...existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion, and delusion in that sense is insanity. If the deceased, in the present case, was... | |
 | John Proffatt - Wills - 1876 - 226 pages
...is thus adopted as a principle of decision in Seaman's Friend Society v. Hopper,* by Judge Denio: " If a person persistently believes supposed facts,...assumption of their existence, he is, so far as they arS concerned, under a morbid delusion, and delusion in that sense is insanity. If the deceased, in... | |
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