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Asylums Board. The Metropolitan Asylums Board, constituted under the (English) Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, dealt with the administration relating to cases of insanity (inter alia) among the poor in London. The Lancashire Asylums Board, established by the Lancashire County Council under statutory powers, carried out similar duties in Lancashire. These boards and their powers were transferred to the London County Council or the respective local authorities by the Local Government Act, 1928 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17)....
asylum
asylum : protection from arrest and extradition given esp. to political refugees by a nation or by an embassy or other agency that has diplomatic immunity ...
asylum state
asylum state : a state that is holding a fugitive from justice from another state pending extradition ...
Military asylum of Chelsea
Military asylum of Chelsea, for the reception of children of soldiers, now called the Duke of York's Royal Military School, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 61; 19 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 16....
Asyium
Asyium [fr. aovlov, Gk., a place free from violence], (1) a sanctuary of refuge; (2) (in an obsolete sense) a place set apart for the treatment and 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, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 23), these asylums are to be called MENTAL HOSPITALS and for any references in any public or local act, order, regulation or other document to 'asylums' references to Mental Hospitals are to be substituted, and see also the (English) Army and Air Force Act, 1931 (21 Geo, 5, c. 14), s. 5.Criminal Lunatics (English) Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 64), deals with detention, etc. of criminal lunatics, e.g., the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.The (English) Asylum (now the Mental Hospital) Officers Superannuation Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 48), makes provision for superannuation allowances for officers and servants, ...
asylee
asylee A 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 Asylum page to learn more. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
extradition
extradition [French, from Latin ex- out + traditio act of handing over, from tradere to hand over] : the surrender of an accused usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one sovereign (as a state or nation) to 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 with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.” ...
persecution
persecution : punishment or harassment usually of a severe nature on the basis of race, religion, or political opinion in one's country of origin [claimed and sought asylum] ...
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 return to it because of persecution or fear of persecution (as because of race, religion, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion) ...
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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