 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
 | Horace Mann - 1891 - 480 pages
...Westminster Hall, and for which he quotes Lord Coke, Fitzherbert, and others: — "A man who is Irarn deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as...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... | |
 | Horace Mann - Education - 1891 - 482 pages
...— "A man who is horn deaf, dumh, and blind, is looked upon by the law n> in the same state with nn idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding,...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... | |
 | 1891 - 484 pages
...and blind, is looked upon hy the Inw a* in the same state with an iJiot; he being supposed incapablc of any understanding, as wanting all 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 Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1892 - 806 pages
...is payable although the mine may not be worked. Dead use, a future use. Deaf and dumb. A man that is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the...idiot, he being supposed incapable of any understanding (1 Bl. 304). Nevertheless, a deaf and dumb person may be tried for felony if the prisoner can be made... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...glimmering 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 iu the same state with an idiot : he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 922 pages
...Hale, PC 84. In 1 Hlackstone's Commentaries, page 304, it is stated that a man who is born deaf and dumb and blind is looked upon by the law as in the...supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting nil those senses which Furnish the human mind with ideas. Co. Litt. 42. In 1 Hale. PC 34, it Is stated:... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...any glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, and other common matters. A man born deaf, dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law, as in the same state as an idiot. Lunatics Defined. A lunatic, or one non compos mentis, is one who has had understanding,... | |
 | John Gabriel Woerner - Guardian and ward - 1897 - 658 pages
...was born deaf, dumb, and blind is in the same state one born deaf, .,... ,. dumb, and with an idiot, being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the truth of snch a belief can be ascertained : " Busw. on Ins. § 210. • Mullins v. Cottrell, 41 Miss.... | |
 | Medical jurisprudence - 1898 - 586 pages
...his age, or the like common matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb and blind is looked upon by law in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed...those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas." There is little doubt that, at the present day, the majority of the pupils of our schools for " feeble-minded... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...glimmering 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...those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas. A lunatic or non compos mentis, is one who hath had understanding, but by disease, grief, or other... | |
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