Lord Brougham on Partial Insanity
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tutes unsoundness of mind. To constitute a " lucid interval," the party must freely and voluntarily, and without the design of pretending sanity, confess his delusion. After making a few preliminary observations, Lord Brougham observes? " The principles which must govern a case of this description are sufficiently clear, and they may be regarded as well settled by the current of former decisions. Indeed, they flow easily, from considering the nature of the inquiry in which such, cases engage us. The question being, whether the will was duly made by a person of sound mind or not, our inquiry, of course, is whether or not the
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