Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Asylum

1. A sanctuary or shelter. 2. Protection of usu. Political refugees from arrest by a foreign jurisdiction; a nation or embassy that affords such protection. - also termed political asylum. 3. An institution for the protection and relief of the unfortunate, esp. The mentally ill. - also termed (in sense 3) insane asylum.

insane asylum

See ASYLUM (3)

political asylum

See ASYLUM (2).