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Non compos mentis: or, the law relating to natural fools, mad-folks, and lunatick persons, inquisted, and explained, for common benefit

Brydall, John, 1635?- · 1700 · London : Assigns of R. & E. Atkins, for I. Cleave · 1 picture

A legal treatise on insanity and lunacy law, written by John Brydall and printed in London in 1700 for the bookseller I. Cleave, with its one picture being a bookplate. The plate shows an engraved heraldic achievement with a crest, a shield bearing three crosses over a chevron, scrolling foliage and a banner reading 'George Kenyon of Peel Hall', a useful model for ornate cartouche and armorial framing.

Insanity (Law) · Mental health laws

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