Custodes

Keepers; guardians; conservators. Custodcs pads (guardians of the peace).

1 Bla. Com. 349.

Custodcs libertatis Angliw auctoritaU liamenti (guardians of the liberty of England by authority of parliament.!. The style in which writs and all judicial process ran during the grand rebellion, from the death of Charles I. till Cromwell was declared Protector. Jacob, Law Diet. CUST0DIA LEGIS. In the custody of the law. When property is lawfully taken, by virtue of legal process, it is in the custody of the law, and not otherwise: Gilman v. Williams. 7 Wis. 334, 76 Am. 1 219. ■Where a sheriff has taken under attachment more than enough property to satisfy it, the property is not in rust*, din i a sense that will prevent a levy by a O. S. marshal in a suit in the federal court, so as to give the latter creditor a lien on 0 cess af Isfying the first attachment; Goodbar v. Brooks, 5*7 Ark. 450. Nor are executions issued on void judgments and their returns admissible against subsequent attaching creditors, t<> show that the were in custodia Icpis; Burr v. Math Mo. A*pp. 470. For cases on property and funds in the custody of the courts not subject to attachment, see Curtis v. Lord, 10 L. R. A. 529, note.