Ward
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
1.
Originally, care; charge; guardianship; as in the expression watch and ward.
2.
A ten-itorial division of cities; so called apparently because formerly each such division was under the particular charge of one alderman. The region over which an alderman had especial charge was called his ward.
3.
A person placed in the personal care and charge of another, standing towards him in a quasi parental relation; particularly used of infants. See Guardian and Wakd. ■Ward of chancery, or of court. A minor, lunatic, &c., under the protection of the court of chancery or of a court of equity, is generally called a ward in chancery or a ward of couit.
Wardship.
The custody of a ward. A word used especially with reference to wardship in chivalry, but also applicable to any form of the ]-elation between guardian and ward.
See Guardian and Ward.