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The Disuse of Inquisitions under the New Lunacy Acts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Extract

The comparative disuse of inquisitions under the new Lunacy Acts is naturally giving rise to much uncertainty and diversity of opinion in medico-legal circles. An attempt to explain the nature and extent of the departure which has been taken under these Statutes may not, therefore, be inopportune. It should be premised that—thanks to the somewhat meagre interest which medico-legal questions excite in Parliament—the pages of Hansard throw little light upon the solution of the difficulty, and the matter is, of course, not one that can readily be made the subject of judicial interpretation.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1894 

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