Note 490 — OF IDIOTS AND LUNATICS.
Reading edition
Anciently the king could grant the care of an idiot’s person and the profits of his estate during his life, without account, except for necessaries; but since the Revolution the crown has always granted the surplus to some of his family. Ridgw. Pa. Ca. 159. App. n. 1. Lysart v. Royse. Sch. and Lef. 153. Fitz-geralds Case ib. 436.