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Sir James Hannen on Testamentary Capacity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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An important case—“Boughton v. Knight”—in which a will was opposed on the ground of the testator's insanity, has recently occupied the Court of Probate for fourteen days. Without entering into the details of so long a case, we print the summing up of Sir James Hannen, so far as it bears upon the general question of testamentary capacity. After a few introductory remarks, he proceeded as follows:—

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Part 1.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1873 

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