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To render a building unfit for habitation by long continued use as a hospital...
Lying-in hospitals
Lying-in hospitals, charities which could not be established without a previous licence from the quarter sessions; legitimate children born in them are not to be chargeable to the parish of their births, 13 Geo. 3, c. 82. See 24 & 26 Vict. c.101, and (English) Midwives Act, 1927 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 32), s. 13, abolishing the necessity for a licence; also Public Health Act, 1936, Part VI., s. 181 et seq...
Foreign hospitality
Foreign hospitality, means any offer, not being a purely casual one, made by a foreign source for providing a person with the costs of travel to any foreign country or territory or with free board, lodging, transport or medical treatment. [Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 (49 of 1976), s. 2 (1) (d)]...
Foundation
Foundation, the founding or building of a college or hospital. The word is taken in two different senses, 'fundatio incipiens' and 'fundatio perficiens'; as to the politic capacity, the act of incorporation is metaphorically called the foundation, but as to the dotation, the first gift of the revenues is called the foundation, and he who gives it is the founder in law [Sutton's Hospital case, (1613) 10 Rep 1; 1 Bl. Com. 468].The basis on which something is supported, esp. evidence or testimony that establishes the admissibility of other evidence, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 667.The founding or building of a college or hospital. The incorporation or endowment of a college or hospital is the foundation; and he who endows it with land or other property is the founder, Black's Law Dictionary, 4th Edn. See also Director of Income Tax v. Bharat Diamond Bourse, (2003) 1 SCC 741....
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...
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, ...
Entertainment
Entertainment, In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 916) the word 'entertainment' has been defined thus:Entertainment ..... for a public or special occasion ...... is an entertainment in the sense of a gathering of persons for entertainment.Entertainment (Small Lotteries and Gaming Act, 1956) c. 45, s. 4(1) included a tombola drive alone without accompanying festivities.The monologue or patter of a comedian, even if delivered at an entertainment provided by an institution whose activities are parly educational, was held to be a variety 'entertainment' within the meaning of the section.Similarly in Words and Phrases, Judicially Defined (Vol. 2, pp. 206- 207) the word entertainment has been defined thus:Entertainment is something connected with the enjoyment of refreshment-rooms, tables, and the like. It is something beyond refreshment; it is the accommodation provided, whether that includes a musical or other amusement or not.Similarly in Words and Phrases (Permanent Ed...
Visitor
Visitor, an inspector of, incidental to and necessary for all elemosynary, many ecclesiastical and other corporations, endowed and other colleges, schools, hospitals and institutions; also of a college, corporation or hospital [see (Halsb. L.E. (Hailsham Edn.), vol. iv., tit. 'Charities'; and Cathedrals Measure, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, No. 7)] The Court of Chancery has exercised the right of visitation on behalf of the Crown, in whom the right (see 25 Hen. 8, c. 21 and 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 2) of visitation and inspection lies, in default of special visitors. Under the (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, Parts VI. and VII., ss. 163 to 206, Chancery visitors of persons of unsound mind, so found by inquisition, appointed by the Lord Chancellor visiting committees under the regulations of a mental hospital, visitors appointed by justices, and visiting commissioners have special powers and duties to inspect persons, treatment documents and places in connection with persons of unsound mind. See also IDIOT...
Harborous
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Entertainment
The act of receiving as host or of amusing admitting or cherishing hospitable reception also reception or treatment in general...
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