Non compos mentis, or, The law relating to natural fools, mad-folks, and lunatick persons inquisited and explained for common benefit / by John Brydall, Esq.
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Non compos mentis, or, The law relating to natural fools, mad-folks, and lunatick persons inquisited and explained for common benefit / by John Brydall, Esq.
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Brydall, John, b. 1635?
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London :: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Isaac Cleave ...,
1700.
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Insanity -- Jurisprudence -- Great Britain.
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"Non compos mentis, or, The law relating to natural fools, mad-folks, and lunatick persons inquisited and explained for common benefit / by John Brydall, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29951.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2025.
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SOLUTION.
If an Heir be an Idiot, of what Age soever, any Man make the Tender for him, in respect of the absolute* 1.1 disability; and the Law in this Case is grounded on Charity: And so in like Cases.
But note, It is otherwise in the Case of an Infant; for it has been adjudged, Trin. 27 El. That where one* 1.2 tendred Money upon a Mortgage for an Infant▪ who was not Guardian, nor was to have any Interest in the Land, that it was adjudged a void Tender. Vide Co. Litt. f. 206. b.
Notes
* 1.1
Coke in his Comment on Lit∣tleton, § 334. f. 206. b.