Warden
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
A guardian; a keeper. This is the name given to various officers; as the warden of a prison, the warden of the Cinque Ports, churchward in London, ordinarily called the wardmote court. The wardmote inquest hath power every year to inquire into and present all defaults concerning the watch and constables doing their duty; that engines, &e., are provided against fire; that persons selling ale and beer be honest, and suffer no disorders, nor permit gaming, &c., that they sell in lawful measures; searches are to be made for vagrants, beggars, and idle persons, &c,, who shall be punished.
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