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detox

the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified often used attributively

Charitable uses and trusts

Geo. 3, c. 136, s. 1; 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

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,

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Hospitals

Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate

Entertainment

or indispensable and, therefore, is not 'entertainment.' If such a bare necessity is offered by another, it is hospitality but not entertainment. Unless the definition of 'entertainment' includes hospitality, the ordinary meaning of 'entertainment' cannot include hospitality,

Substance

or artificial substance, whether in solid or liquid form or in form of a gas or vapour, Adarsha Hospital v. Union of India, AIR 2005 Kant 416. Substance, See Adarsha Hospital v. Union of India, AIR 2005

Hospitalism

A vitiated condition of the body due to long confinement in a hospital or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital

commit

entrust consign [committed her children to her sister's care] b : to place in a prison or mental hospital esp. by judicial order [was found to be gravely disabled and was involuntarily committed to the Central Louisiana

Visitor

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';

commitment

1 : an act of committing: as a : placement in or assignment to a prison or mental hospital [petition for ] compare incompetent, interdiction NOTE: Commitment to a mental health facility is called civil commitment when

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