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A Century of the McNaghten Rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

H. Barnes
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The subject falls conveniently into two parts, (I) comment made during the century since McNaghten's Case in 1843 on the answers given by the judges to the questions put to them by the House of Lords, and (II) discussion of the defence of irresistible impulse. For the convenience of readers the Questions and Answers are reprinted from the tenth volume of Clark and Finnelly's Keports, 200, 209–212.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , November 1944 , pp. 300 - 321
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1944

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