Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Hospitallers
A military and religious order founded by the Catholic Church in the 12th century and so called because it built a hospital at Jerusalem to care for pilgrims. ( The Crown seized all its lands and goods in England under the Grantees of Reversions Act (1540). The Hospitallers still functions in several countries as a humanitarian society.
Spital
Archaic. A hospital. Also termed spittle.
determinate hospitalization
A fixed period of hospitalization, usu. by civil commitment.
foundling hospital
A charitable institution, found esp. in Europe, the purpose of which is to care for abandoned children.
hospitalaria.
See HOSTILARIA.