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C 3.
Of Exemptions from Punishment

your side and suspecting nothing, a man was to come suddenly
and shove it violently against a third person; or whether
it acted in a contrary direction; as if you had time to recollect
yourself and struggle though ineffectually against
the force with which the assailant pushed your hand
against the person he assaulted whom he took this
method of assaulting.

Exemption II: Insanity.

1. If any Idiot or Maniac; that is if any one who labours under insanity, whether incurable or
temporary, and who is not in ward, (A) commit any offence; he shall + + Compensation how to be made for an offence by an insane person not in ward. An Ideot, who be exempted from all punishment: but compensation, either adequate or partial, shall be made from his effects, according
to the discretion of the Judge.

Exposition
1.

1 [(A) In ward] A That is under the care of some person in
course of Law appointed to take charge of him: See the
Laws concerning Ideots — Laws concerning Madmen.

2

2 [( ) Ideot] An Ideot is one among whose ideas there is not that
connection which it is necessary there should be, in order for
the fear of punishment as administer'd by the Law to be in
any likelyhood of deterring him from the commission of any
offence: but who is not ordinarily under the governance
of a malevolent or mischievous disposition. To p. 7.
3. Neither

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Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	013	Info in main headings field	of exemptions from punishment
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