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Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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New York law empowers the Court of Chancery to oversee estates of habitual drunkards, treating them like idiots and lunatics. In the case of J. H., an inquisition determined his incapacity, resulting in his estate being removed from his control and future acts voided.
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An inquisition, in the nature of a writ de lunatico inquirendo was in the case of a Mr. H. by which certain persons were directed to inquire, by the oaths of good and lawful men, whether J. H. was incapable of conducting his own affairs, &c. This was found to be the case; and the consequence will be that his estate will be taken out of his hands, and all his acts in relation to it hereafter will be null and void.
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estate taken out of his hands, all his acts in relation to it hereafter will be null and void
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By a very salutary law, in the State of New York, the Court of Chancery is invested with a jurisdiction over the estates of those persons, who, by habitual drunkenness, are rendered incapable of conducting their own affairs. This very properly places them upon a footing with idiots and lunatics. An inquisition, in the nature of a writ de lunatico inquirendo was in the case of a Mr. H. by which certain persons were directed to inquire, by the oaths of good and lawful men, whether J. H. was incapable of conducting his own affairs, &c. This was found to be the case.