Add to ORKGThis Article will attempt to discuss the main principles concerning the legal effect of different states of mind and will include a brief study of specific applications of these principles to a fev fields of the law of torts, including slander and libel, malicious prosecution, fraud and deceit and the question of liability for punitive damages, and will also consider state of mind as an element in fraudulent conveyances. This discussion will be confined, however, to normal states of mind and will not include states of mind created by insanity or other mental incapacity, or the effect of duress upon an otherwise normal mind
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In previous papers we discussed two aspects of state of mind: (I) where it was used to prove an act ...
In previous papers we discussed two aspects of state of mind: (I) where it was used to prove an act ...
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To prove guilt, jurors in many countries must find that the criminal defendant acted with a particul...
This Article investigates jurisdictions’ compliance with M’Naghten’s directive for how to treat delu...
This article examines the legal implications linked to recent scientific research on human conscious...
This Article explores the panoply of state-of-mind rules in inheritance law. In areas of law concern...
In previous papers we discussed two aspects of state of mind: (I) where it was used to prove an act ...
In previous papers we discussed two aspects of state of mind: (I) where it was used to prove an act ...
Under the general American rule utterances revealing present state of mind are admissible to prove t...
Mistake about or ignorance of the law does not exculpate in criminal law, except in limited circumst...
The mental competence of a defendant charged with crime is assumed in most jurisdictions, and the de...
Under the general American rule utterances revealing present stateof mind are admissible to prove th...
What kinds of harm among those that tortfeasors inflict are worthy of compensation? Which forms of s...
A central tenet of Anglo-American penal law is that in order for an actor to be found criminally lia...
Contemporary American Criminal Law, as represented by the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code,...
People have an intuitive sense of what makes a good explanation for behavior. Confronted with a part...
Nearly every case in nearly every legal system is a case where the factfinder—that is, the judge or ...
To prove guilt, jurors in many countries must find that the criminal defendant acted with a particul...
This Article investigates jurisdictions’ compliance with M’Naghten’s directive for how to treat delu...
This article examines the legal implications linked to recent scientific research on human conscious...