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Foundling-hospitals

Foundling-hospitals, charitable institutions which exist in most countries for taking care of infants forsaken by their parents, such being generally the offspring of illegal connections. The (English) Founding Hospital Act is the 13 Geo. 2, c. 29, and other personal Acts....

Charitable uses and trusts

Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...

Hospitals

Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of inheritance; or sole, in which the master, etc., only has the estate in him, and the brethren or sisters, having college and common seal in them, must consent, or the master alone has the estate, not having college or common seal. So hospitals are eligible, donatives, or preventative, Jac. Law Dict.By 39 Eliz. c. 5, made perpetual by 21 Jac. 1, c. 1, any person seised of an estate in fee-simple may, by deed enrolled in Chancery, erect and found a hospital for the sustenance and relief of 'the maimed, poor, needy, or impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with lands or hereditaments of the yearly value of 20l.For power of local authorities to provide hospitals for their districts, see Public Health Act, 1875, s. 131; Isolation Hospitals Acts, 1893, 1901 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 68; 1 Edw. 7, c. 8), all repealed from Oct. 1937 and repla...

Greenwich hospital

Greenwich hospital. An institution for the relief of seamen, now vested in the Admiralty. See 1 Jac. 2, c. 18, rep. 6 Geo. 4, c. 105; 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 21, rep. 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 34; 10 Geo. 4, c. 26, and the many Acts which have subsequently been passed dealing with the Hospital. The principal Act now in force is the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 44), and, as to the application of the revenues of the Hospital, the Act of 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 67), and subsequent Acts. See Chron. Table and Index of Stats., tit. 'Greenwich Hospital.'...

Hospital

Hospital, includes a nursing home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes and other like institution. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (g)]Means any institution which provides medical or surgical treatment for in-patients, other than: (1) a health service hospital within the meaning of the National Health Service Act, 1977 [See (English) National Health Service Act, 1977); (2) one which is military hospital; or (3) any institution carried on for profit [See (English) Road Traffic Act, 1988, s. 161(1) definition substituted by the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act, 1999, s. 18(3)]....

Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home

Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, means a hospital or, as the case may be, a nursing home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for the treatment and care of mentally ill person and includes a convalescent home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for such mentally ill persons; but does not include any general hospital or general nursing home established or maintained by the Government and which provides also for psychiatric services. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (q) ]...

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