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4. C
Of Exemptions from Punishment.
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A madman, who
4. [( ) Maniac] A Madman or frantic person or Maniac is one among whose ideas
there is not that connection or in other words that steadiness
of association, which it is necessary there should be, in order
for the fear of punishment as administered by the Law
to be in any likelyhood of deterring him from the commission
of any offence; and who is ordinarily under
the governance of a malevolent or mischievous disposition.
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2.
1 2. If any one who labours under insanity, whether incurable
or — how where the insane person is in ward. temporary, and who is in ward commit any offence, he
shall be exempted from all Punishment: but compensation
either in part or in whole shall shall be made either from his effects alone;
or from those of his keeper; or from both: according to the
greater or less degree of heedlessness in the keeper, at the
discretion of the Judge.
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3. Punishment and Compensation where the offender falls into incurable insanity: If a man in his right mind commit any offence
and afterwards Fall into incurable insanity, he shall be
exempted from all corporal and disgraceful punishment;
but he shall remain liable to chronical and pecuniary punishment,
and as far as he hath wherewithal, full compensation
shall be exacted of him.
7. If
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