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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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