The M'Naghten rule(s) (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton) is a legal test defining the defence of insanity, first formulated by House of Lords...

other common law jurisdictions known as the M'Naghten rules. There is disagreement over how M'Naghten's name should be spelt (Mc or M' at the beginning...

varied, and include the M'Naghten Rule, the Durham rule, the 1953 British Royal Commission on Capital Punishment report, the ALI rule (American Legal Institute...

example of "the limitations of the M'Naghten rules (also called M'Naghten test)."[citation needed] The M'Naghten rules are used to determine whether or...

ministers. He was fatally shot by Daniel M'Naghten, whose subsequent trial gave rise to the M'Naghten rules, the legal test of insanity used in many common...

defendant was insane when they committed a crime. It is a variant of the M'Naghten Rules that addresses the situation in which the defendant knew that what...

M'Naghten was also found not guilty on the grounds of insanity. The cases of Oxford and M'Naghten prompted the judiciary to frame the M'Naghten rules...

psychosis, and schizophrenia leading up to the murders—placed the M'Naghten rules, along with the irresistible impulse test for sanity, under close public...

when involuntary. Any defence that rests on insanity comes under the M'Naghten rules. Under English law internal causes of automatism are generally judged...

their actions. The current wording comes from the M'Naghten Rules, based on the trial of Daniel M'Naghten in 1843. The defence of insanity has been subject...