Balium

Ballium. L. Lat. [Ital. balio, from Or. ^alsiv, or ^al Xeiv, to commit.] In old Italian law. Protection, guardianship, education. Pupilli qui protectione balii indigere noscantur, ipsorum balium cum administrations bonorum eis coniingentium curia nostra suscipiat; whatever minors shall be known to need the protection of guardianship, our court shall undertake their guardianship, with the management of the property belonging to them. Ctmstitut. N'eapolit. lib. 2, tit. 7, apud Spelman, voc. Balius.