Title: Legal order and mental disorder /
Authors: Dhanda, Amita.
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Mental health laws India.; Insanity (Law) India.; Mental Health legislation India [MESH].
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Laws relating to custody, care and treatment -- 3. Insanity and criminal responsibility -- 4. Insanity, marriage, and divorce -- 5. Property rights of persons with mental disorder -- 6. Contractual capacity of persons with mental illness -- 7. Testamentary disposition of property -- 8. Protection and enforcment of rights : capacity to litigate -- 9. The political rights of a person of unsound mind -- 10. From laws relating to the mentally ill to mental health laws.