Custos

A custodian, guard, keeper, or warden; a magistrate. pleas, whose duty it is to receive and keep all the writs returnable to that court, and put them upon file, and also to receive of the prothonotaries all records of nisi prius, called posteas. Blount. An officer in the king's bench, having similar duties. Cowell; Termes de la Ley. The office is now abolished.

Lat. A custodian, guard, keeper or warden; a magistrate.

— Custos brevium. The keeper of the writs. A principal clerk belonging to the courts of queen's bench and common pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into those courts. The office was abolished by 1 Wm. IV. c. 5.

— Custos ferarum. A gamekeeper. Townsh. PL 265.

— Custos horrei regii. Protector of the royal granary. 2 Bl. Comm. 394.

— Custos maris. In old English law. Warden of the sea. The title of a high naval officer among the Saxons and after the Conquest, corresponding with admiral.

— Custos morum. The guardian of morals. The court of queen's bench has been so styled. 4 Steph. Comm. 377.

— Custos placitorum coronae. In old English law. Keeper of the pleas of the crown. Bract. foL 145. Cowell supposes this office to have been the same with the custos rotulorum. But it seems rather to have been another name for "coroner." Crabb, Eng. Law, 150; Bract, fol. 136b.

— Custos rotulorum. Keeper of the rolls. An officer in England who has the custody of the rolls or records of the sessions of the peace, and also of the commission of the peace itself. He is always a justice of the quorum in the county where appointed and is the principal civil officer in the county. 1 Bl. Comm. 349 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 272

— Custos spiritualium. In English ecolesiastical law. Keeper of the spiritualities. He who exercises the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese during the vacancy of the see. Cowell.

— Custos temporalium. In English ecclesiastical law. The person to whom a vacant see or abbey was given by the king, as supreme lord. His office was, as steward of the goods and profits, to give an account to the escneator, who did the like to the exchequer.

— Custos terræ. In old English law. Guardian, warden, or keeper of the land.

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In English law. A keeper, protector or guardian. Cttstos brevium: keeper of the writs; a principal clerk belonging to the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, whose office was to receive and keep all the writs returned into the court, and also all records of nisiprius. Custos ferarum: agame-keeper. Custos horreiregii: protector of the royal granary. Custos rotulorum: keeper of the rolls; an officer who has the custody of the rolls or records of the sessions of the peace, and also of the commission of the peace itself.

In old English law. A keeper, protector or guardian; a magistrate; the warden of a city. Custos maris: warden of the sea; the title of a high naval officer among the Saxons, and after the conquest correspionding with admiral. Custos placitornm coronte: keeper of the pleas of the crown. Custos terriE: guardian, warden or keeper of the land. ■ ' ' ■.'

In English ecclesiastical law. Custos spiritual! um: keeper of the spiritualities; one who exercises the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese during the vacancy of the see. Custos temporalium: keeper of the temporalities; one to whose custody a vacant see or abbey was committed by the king as supreme lord.

A custodian, guard, keeper, or warden; a magistrate.

pi. custodes, I. A guard, keeper, warden, magistrate. Custos brevium: the keeper of the writs, a principal clerk of the C. B. Custos maris (warden of the sea): admiral. Custos placitorum coronae: keeper of the pleas of the Crown. Custos rotulorum: keeper of the rolls; the principal justice of the peace of a county, the first civil officer, as the lord lieutenant is the first military officer. Custos spiritualium: guardian of the spiritualities, he that exercised ecclesiastical jurisdiction during the vacancy of a see, while the custos temporalium, guardian of the temporalities, looked after the material interests and Custuma antiqua sive and hides. Custuma ported or imported by