Indian Criminal Law: Containing the Indian Penal Code and Other Indian Acts Relating to Offences, and Also Acts of Parliament and Orders in Council Relating to Offences Triable in India, Including Act X of 1886 ...

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Education society's Press, 1886 - 635 páginas

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Página 69 - ... must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real.
Página 68 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Página 346 - ... shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.
Página 284 - ... that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Página 563 - Whereas the rightful jurisdiction of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, extends and has always extended over the open seas adjacent to the coasts of the United Kingdom and of all other parts of Her Majesty's dominions to such a distance as is necessary for the defence and security of such dominions...
Página 176 - ... with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both...
Página 584 - whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representation, or otherwise excites or attempts to excite, feelings of disaffection to the Government established by law in British India...
Página 314 - Whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry, shall, if such miscarriage be not caused in good faith for the purpose of saving the life of the woman, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both...
Página 67 - As these two questions appear to us to be more conveniently answered together, we submit our opinion to be that the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction.
Página 68 - If the accused was conscious that the act was one which he ought not to do, and if that act was at the same time contrary to the law of the land, he is punishable...

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