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Guardianship

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The office, duty or authority of a guardian. Also the relation subsisting between guardian and ward.

Shoecraft v. Bailey, 25 Iowa, 555; Beale v. Posey, 72 Ala. 331; Walling v. Potter, 35 Conn. 185.

A guest, as distinguished from a boarder, ls bound for no stipulated time. He stops at the inn for as short or as long time as he pleases, paying, while he remains, the customary charge.

Stewart v. McCrcady, 24 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 62.