UNSOUND MIND, MEMORY - These words have
been adopted in several statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately
used to signify, not only lunacy, which is periodical
madness, but also a permanent adventitious insanity as
distinguished from idiocy.
The term unsound mind seems to have been used in those
statutes in the same sense as insane; but they have
been said to import that the party was in some such
state as was contradistinguished from idiocy and from
lunacy, and yet such is made him a proper subject of
a commission to inquire of idiocy and lunacy.
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