automatism

Mr Johnson "fundamentally disagreed" with that conclusion, and the judge accepted that it was for Mr Steele to prove he was suffering from insane automatism.

The second episode presented by hypermotor activity and right deviation of head for 22 seconds with subtle automatism exactly before ictal phase termination.

Part I deals with the conceptual terrain of mental incapacity doctrines; Parts II and III use a socio-historical approach to analyzing the law in England and Wales relating to unfitness to plead, infancy, insanity, and automatism (Part II), in addition to intoxication, infanticide, and diminished responsibility (Part III).

To that end, he juxtaposes a little-known philosophical treatise by Felix Ravaisson titled De l'habitude (1848)--the same text he showcased in a previous book, Courbet's Realista--to the structure of intention versus automatism, or will versus nature, that is at play in Madame Bovary (5).

Ross's lawyers told the court back in April this year that she hit the couple after blacking out because of a condition known as "automatism", which she knew nothing about and could not have foreseen.

He claimed that he was in a state of automatism - an act performed unconsciously - when he drove from his home near Ormskirk, Lancashire.

A You are referring to the potential defence of automatism. This can arise where it is suggested that the driver has acted in an involuntary way due to some intervening force.

However automatism would be diffif cult to prove where the medical condition is pre-existing.

Critics have praised her work for its employment of the Surrealist techniques of automatism and accidentalism, and all 24 paintings from her first solo exhibition in 2011, The Prodigy of Color, sold within two weeks.

Yet for all their continuing obscurity--even in France, where Hantai has long been seen as a major figure, the early works on paper remain little known--these deceptively modest paintings offer early evidence of some of Hantai's defining preoccupations: tactile engagement with the support; the possibility of an "objective" automatism, rooted in materials and techniques; and the undoing of clear-cut figure-ground relations.

The Message is a fascinating contribution to the study of mediumship, automatism, and art, although it has minor flaws, including an irregular translation organization (the English translation is at the very end except for the Breton chapter), some translation errors, and other slips such as including references to images that are nowhere to be found in the book.

Piper showed indications of this echolalia and its highly developed automatism as a consequence."

Defence solicitor Carys Parry cited cases in law where motorists had been cleared of driving offences when the driver had a bout of sneezing and there was a clear defence of automatism.