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Drunkenness in Law
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or The Talmud speaks only once of drunkenness in its relation to responsibility for contracts or for crimes; namely, in the following baraita ('Er. 65a):
"A drunken man's purchase is a purchase; his sale is a sale; if he commits a capital offense, they put him to death; if he does an act punishable by stripes, they flog him; in a word, he is deemed of sound mind for all purposes, except that he is free from prayer [elsewhere the recital of the prayer is forbidden to the drunken man]. R. Ḥanina says: 'All this is true only until the man has gone as far in his drunkenness as Lot went; but when he has gone as far as Lot, he is free from everything.'"
These rules are followed by all the codes; e.g., Maimonides, "Yad," Mekirah,; Shulḥan 'Aruk, Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ, 222, 22.
Speaking broadly, these principles agree with those of the English-American law. Compare, however, Fraud and Mistake, Law of.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Drunkenness in Law'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/d/drunkenness-in-law.html. 1901.
