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By attaching legal consequences to conduct, the law necessarily regards individuals as responsible agents. For example, in holding individuals civilly and/or criminally liable for actions harmful to others, the law necessarily presupposes that it applies to individuals who are responsible, in the sense of accountable, for their actions; in enforcing certain voluntary acts of individuals, as in the law of property, contracts, wills, or marriage, the law must presuppose that the agents whose acts they are, are responsible in the sense of being capable of looking out for their own best interests. Mental illness has for centuries been a concept dealt with by the law because it negates, in some way or another and to some degree, the basic postulate of responsibility on which the law rests.
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Moore, M.S. (1980). Legal Conceptions of Mental Illness. In: Brody, B.A., Engelhardt, H.T. (eds) Mental Illness: Law and Public Policy. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8972-6_2
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