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Custodia

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from custos, a keeper or guardian; L. Fr. gard^ garde.] In old English law and practice. Keepin^r, custody. In arcta et salva custodia; m close and safe custody.

3 Bl. Com. 415.

Ward, or guard; the duty of keeping guard.

1 Bl. Com. 356.

Wardship or guardianship; {custodia pupillorum.) Peg. Orig. 161, et seq.

Spelman.

Bract, fol.

87. Co. Litt. 76 a.

Custodia comitatus; the wardship of a county.

3 Salk. 822.