Lunacy Acts Amendment Act 1862
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to Lunatics, other than those found Lunatics by Inquisition, or Lunatics convicted of Crime, or acquitted on the Ground of Insanity: Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows (that is to say,