This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of insanity, and such other information as may be required. d. Appeal from commitment. The writ of habeas corpus extends to all cases of illegal confinement or detention by which any person is deprived of his liberty, or by which the rightful custody of any person is withheld from the person entitled thereto, except in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of insanity, and such other information as may be required. d. Appeal from commitment. The writ of habeas corpus extends to all cases of illegal confinement or detention by which any person is deprived of his liberty, or by which the rightful custody of any person is withheld from the person entitled thereto, except in cases expressly excepted. e. Cost of commitment. The costs of an inquest and the removal 3"Jto and from the hospital are to be paid by the estate of the insane person, and if he have none, by the persons required by the pauper laws to support him. The county of the legal settlement of an insane person is liable for all the expenses incurred and paid by another county. 4. CONVEYING PATIENTS TO THE HOSPITAL It is the duty of the sheriff to place persons adjudged insane in Duty of sheriffone of the hospitals if there is a vacancy; if not, to confine him in the county jail until there is room. 5. TRANSFER OF PATIENTS 6. PAROLE AND DISCHARGE OF PATIENTS A patient who is found to be incurable but harmless, and who D "Jf6can properly be cared for outside'of the hospital, and a patient who has recovered, must be discharged. When a patient is restored to reason, the superintendent of the hospital may furnish him transportation to his home and make requisition on the board of supervisors of his county for the costs. The superintendent must discharge a 3"6person found to be sane, although judged insane and confined in the hospital, and give him a certificate of sanity, a duplicate of which must be sent to the sheriff of the county. (See 3 d. habeas corpus.) 7. COST OF MAINTENANCE The expense of maintaining indigent insane in hospitals is borne InjJ?5ts' by the state. But if an insane person has an estate more than sufficient for the suppo...
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Add this copy of Summaries of State Laws Relating to the Insane. to cart. $20.35, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2010 by Gale Ecco, Making of Modern Law.
