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On the Right of Reclamation of the Insane before the Civil Courts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Achille Foville
Achille Foville*
Affiliation:
Inspecteur général des établissements de Bienfaisance
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[The subject discussed in this article, and the facts stated in regard to the actual practice of the French Courts in reference to the claims of the insane under restraint, with a view to recover their liberty, are of such vital importance at the present time in our own country, that we have thought it well to reproduce Dr. Foville's paper, which was read before the Congress of Psychiatry and Neuro-pathology held at Antwerp, September 7, 1885. The deliberate opinion of so great an authority cannot fail to be of much practical value, in view of the changes in Lunacy Law which seem imminent.—Eds.]

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 32 , Issue 137 , April 1886 , pp. 1 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1886

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This is a French legal process, to which there is no equivalent in England, by which a lunatic detained in an asylum, any relative or friend, or any person interested, may claim his discharge before the Civil Court. Throughout this article the word “réclamation” is translated “claim.”

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