Asylum - Law Dictionary Search Results
Madhouse
An house or institution where insane persons are confined an insane asylum a bedlam usually used in a deprecatory sense
Charitable uses and trusts
and 45 Geo. 3, c. 84, s. 3); the commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and of the Royal navy Asylum; the members of the Seamen's Hospital Society; the governors of St. George's Hospital, and of the Foundling Hospital
loony bin
An institution for the confinement or treatment of insane persons such as an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital
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refugee
refugee : an individual seeking refuge or asylum ;esp : an individual who has left his or her native country and is unwilling or unable to
persecution
nature on the basis of race, religion, or political opinion in one's country of origin [claimed and sought asylum]
extradition
another that has jurisdiction to try the accused and that has demanded his or her return see also asylum state compare detainer, rendition NOTE: Article IV of the U.S. Constitution states: “A person charged in any State
Jury
solicitors' managing clerks, police, J.P.'s within their own jurisdiction, mem-bers of corporations, etc., governors of prisons, superintendents of asylums, registered medical practitioners, chemists, dentists, officers and members of H.M. forces, servants of Post Office, Customs, and Inland
Lunatic
prisoner found guilty but insane. The Home Secretary may order insane prisoners to be removed from prison to asylums [(English) Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884, s. 2]. See Archbold's Crim. Pleading, etc. As to Scotland, see the (English)
Visitor
See also IDIOT and PERSON OF UNSOUND MIND. As to prisons, see 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21; asylums, see (English) Lunacy Act, 1890. Any jurisdiction exercised by the Lord Chancellor in right or on behalf of
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