A Text-book of legal medicine and toxicology v. 1, 1903, Volume 1W.B. Saunders & Company, 1903 |
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... present work will fill , and it was in this hope that the book has been planned and executed . With few and wholly unimportant exceptions the articles composing the two volumes have been inserted without change by the editors . This has ...
... present work will fill , and it was in this hope that the book has been planned and executed . With few and wholly unimportant exceptions the articles composing the two volumes have been inserted without change by the editors . This has ...
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... present system is that in some departments of legal medicine physicians who are really not experts in the true sense of the word can still qualify as such . A professorship of therapeutics and of insanity in an unimportant medical ...
... present system is that in some departments of legal medicine physicians who are really not experts in the true sense of the word can still qualify as such . A professorship of therapeutics and of insanity in an unimportant medical ...
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... present from the opinions you deduct from them or deduce from the evidence offered to you . The lawyer , from his education in legal matters and from his experience in court procedures , naturally is much better informed than the ...
... present from the opinions you deduct from them or deduce from the evidence offered to you . The lawyer , from his education in legal matters and from his experience in court procedures , naturally is much better informed than the ...
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... present smooth and extensive cut surfaces , upon which the structural conditions may be studied . The most universally convenient form of the brain knife is like an amputa- tion knife ; it should have a total length of about 30 cm ...
... present smooth and extensive cut surfaces , upon which the structural conditions may be studied . The most universally convenient form of the brain knife is like an amputa- tion knife ; it should have a total length of about 30 cm ...
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... present , and , invariably , of those by whom the body is identified . If positive identification by some one who knew the dead person during life is not obtainable , a detailed description of the characteristics of the body must be ...
... present , and , invariably , of those by whom the body is identified . If positive identification by some one who knew the dead person during life is not obtainable , a detailed description of the characteristics of the body must be ...
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Page 540 - But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 440 - in all suits upon policies of insurance on life hereafter issued by any company doing business in this State, to a citizen of this State, it shall be no defense that the insured committed suicide, unless it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the court or jury trying the cause, that the insured contemplated suicide at the time he made his application for the policy, and any stipulation in the policy to the...
Page 7 - This work presents to the medical and legal professions a comprehensive survey of forensic medicine and toxicology in moderate compass. For convenience of reference the treatise has been divided into two sections, Part I and Part II, the latter being devoted to Toxicology and all other portions of Legal Medicine in which laboratory investigation is an essential feature. Under "Expert Evidence...
Page 445 - If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties, from anger, pride, jealousy or a desire to escape from the ills of life, intentionally takes his own life, the proviso attaches, and there can be no recovery. If the death is caused by the voluntary Opinion of the Court.