 But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot : he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas.  Human Physiology - Page 317by Robley Dunglison - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Vincent Benét - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1862 - 392 pages
...who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is still looked upon by the law as in the same state as an idiot, being supposed incapable of any understanding, as...wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind Avith ideas. Persons who have become permanently deranged in intellect, are incompetent. A lunatic... | |
 | Allan Menzies - Conveyancing - 1863 - 1030 pages
...Blackstone's Commentaries, which were published in 1765 :—"A man who is born deaf, dumb, See 23d edit, by " and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an ^."353.' v ° " idiot; he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as want" ing all those senses... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Wills - 1865 - 894 pages
...and blind, by accident, after birth, was to be held Don compos mentis. And Blackstone says that a man born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idioj. 1 Coimu. 304 ; Co. Litt. 42 ; Fleta, lib. 6, v. 40. But this has been held a prima facie presumption... | |
 | Horace Mann - Education - 1867 - 498 pages
...Coke, Fitzherbert, and others : — "A mnn who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the low as in the same state with an idiot; he being supposed...those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas." Surely it cannot be denied that education has done something for mankind since this doctrine was sent... | |
 | Ira Mayhew - Education - 1867 - 486 pages
...glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the samo fetate with an idiot, he being supposed 'incapable of any understanding, as wanting ull the senses... | |
 | Horace Mann - Education - 1868 - 788 pages
...in Westminster Hall, and for which he quotes Lord Coke, Fitzherbert, and others : — "A man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the...those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas." Surely it cannot be denied that education has done something for mankind since this doctrine was sent... | |
 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 806 pages
...matters ;5 but a man who is born deaf, dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law in the same state as an idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding,...all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas.0 An idiot is not of course capable of committing a crime, but to make a lack of natural sense... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...reason, so ' "' J that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law...those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas. (17) A lunatic, or non compos mentis, is one who hath had understanding, but by disease, grief, or... | |
 | Richard Thomas Walkem - Executors and examinators - 1873 - 580 pages
...AND BLINDNESS. 49 3. It is laid down by Blackstone that a man who is Bo1^ nborn deaf, blind and dumb is looked upon by the law as in the same state with...those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas (a) ; and, this being so, he is incapable of having animum testandi, and his testament is therefore... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 860 pages
...of reason, so -" that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot :(r) he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the... | |
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