Friday, June 01, 2007

On Insanity

'"Insane person" - Any person who shall for the time being be idiotic lunatic or of unsound mind and incapable of managing himself or his affairs and whether found insane by inquisition or otherwise' - An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Law Relating to the Insane 1879 (NSW) s 3.

2 comments:

MH said...

I found this quite by random: needed a book to make it look like a table in the Law Library was occupied, pulled a volume off a shelf and opened it to this Act ...

Samuel Douglas said...

Happily I think I just get across the line into sanity by that measure, though I know a lot of people who don't.