Inquirendo

) In equity practice. A commission issuing out of chancery, auliiorizing certain persons to inquire whether a person represented to be a lunatic, be so or not; in order that, if he or she be found a lunatic, their person or estate may be properly taken care of.

1 BL Com, 305.

See old form of commission, ^g, Jud. Appendix, 19. This is usually done by committing the care of it to some suitable persons, called the lunatic's committee, 1 £1, Com, ub, sup, 2 Steph, Com, 631.

Stock on Non Compotes Mentis, 86 — 128. [2] N. r. Rev. St. [62]. 1 Id, 813.