Archbold's lunacy : comprising the Lunacy Acts, 1890 and 1891; the Lancashire County (Lunatic Asylums and Other Powers) Act, 1891, and all the statutory rules, orders and forms in force thereunder, also the statutes relating to criminal lunatics, the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act, 1886, and the Idiots Act, 1886 / by S. G. Lushington.

  • Lushington, S. G.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Archbold's lunacy : comprising the Lunacy Acts, 1890 and 1891; the Lancashire County (Lunatic Asylums and Other Powers) Act, 1891, and all the statutory rules, orders and forms in force thereunder, also the statutes relating to criminal lunatics, the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act, 1886, and the Idiots Act, 1886 / by S. G. Lushington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. 11/TORE than four years have elapsed since the pnb- lication of the last edition of this work, which was, however, received with so much favour that the demand for a fresh edition arose within a remarkably short space of time. But, owing to a serious personal accident, I have been unable to complete the revision of the work before the present date. In the meantime the Lunacy Act, 1890, has been amended in various not unimportant particulars by the Lunacy Act, 1891, and an important local Act has been passed in the same year for dealing with the manage- ment of the public lunatic asylums for the county and county boroughs of Lancashire. The Rules in Lunacy have been recast in 1892 and supplemented in 1893. I have endeavoured to record accurately these changes in the law in the present edition, and I have also thoroughly revised all the matter retained from the last edition. In particular, the notes on the sections dealing with the subject matter of the old Lunacy Regulation Acts have been worked tip, and copious 1—2