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Understanding the legal rights and responsibilities of Deaf and Dumb individuals in the 19th century, and how interpreters bridge communication in court and daily life.
This edition presents a clear look at how a Deaf Mute can participate in civil and criminal law. It explains the role of signs and written communication as reliable tools for understanding oath, testimony, and legal proceedings. It also discusses rights, accountability, and the conditions under which guardians or special protections might be applied, in plain language suitable for readers new to the topic.
- How interpreters and written communication help Deaf Mutes follow court proceedings
- When and how Deaf individuals can enter contracts, own property, or give evidence
- The balance between moral accountability and disability in legal outcomes
- Historical examples that show practical communication in real cases
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We will give the principal passage upon the subject from Braeton in his own words, which will be the more interesting, as it shows that the law did not at that time admit, or rather it denied, the possibility of the Deaf and Dumb expressing their will or consent, even by signs; a state of things not remarkable, when it is remembered that the learned Spaniard Vives, nearly two centuries later, questioned, merely from the inherent in credibility of the thing in his view, the statement of the Heidel burg Professor Agricola, that he had seen a young man, born Deaf and Dumb, who had learned to understand writing, and to note down his whole thought. (de Anima of Vives, lib. Ii, cap. De Discendi Ratione, and see De Inventione Dialecticae of Agri cola, lib. Iii.) The passage from Braeton is as follows.
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