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asylum
Matched in: Term asylum
Asylums Board
Asylums Board. The Metropolitan Asylums Board, constituted under the (English) Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, dealt with the administration relating
Military asylum of Chelsea
Matched in: Term Military asylum of Chelsea
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asylum state
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Asyium
habitation of persons of unsound mind. See (English) Lunacy Act, 1890 to 1922, where the term meant an asylum provided by any local authority under those Acts, but by s. 20 of the (English) Mental Treatment Act,
asylee
person who cannot return to his home country because of a well-founded fear of persecution. An application for asylum is made in the United States to the DHS. Go to the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Frith-soen, or frithstol
Frith-soen, or frithstol, an asylum; sanctuary.
York, Duke of
York, Duke of. See MILITARY ASYLUM OF CHELSEA.
Person of unsound mind
patient's affairs under the direction of the Masters in Lunacy. The cost of maintenance in a criminal lunatic asylum is a Crown debt recoverable against the lunatic's estate, In re J., (1909) 1 Ch 574.
Grotius
the same, R (Boran) v. Home Secretary (QBD), (2004) 1 WLR 3129 EWHC. [See (English) Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act, 2002 (C 41), s. 96(2)]
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