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Bunraku (iou) and UNSOUND MIND; UNSOUND MEMORY (law)


Bunraku (iou)



Bunraku noun & adjective. E20.
[Japanese.]
(Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of) Japanese puppet drama, spec. as practised by the Bunraku-za company.

UNSOUND MIND; UNSOUND MEMORY (law)


UNSOUND MIND; UNSOUND MEMORY. These words have been adopted in several statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately used to signify, not only lunacy, statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately used to signify, not only lunacy, which is periodical madness, but also a permanent adventitious insanity as which is periodical madness, but also a permanent adventitious insanity as distinguished from idiocy. 1 Ridg. Parl. Cases, 518; 3 Atk. 171. distinguished from idiocy. 1 Ridg. Parl. Cases, 518; 3 Atk. 171. 2. The term unsound mind seems to have been used in those statutes in 2. 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 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 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 lunacy, and yet such is made him a proper subject of a commission to inquire of idiocy and lunacy. Shelf. on Lun. 5; Ray, Med. Jur. Prel. Sec. 8; Hals. of idiocy and lunacy. Shelf. on Lun. 5; Ray, Med. Jur. Prel. Sec. 8; Hals. Med. Jur. 336; 8 Ves. 66; 19 Ves. 286; 1 Beck' s Med. Jur. 573; Coop. Ch. Med. Jur. 336; 8 Ves. 66; 19 Ves. 286; 1 Beck' s Med. Jur. 573; Coop. Ch. Cas. 108; 12 Ves. 447; 2 Mad. Ch. Pr. 731, 732. Cas. 108; 12 Ves. 447; 2 Mad. Ch. Pr. 731, 732.