Custos Morum
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The guardian of morals. The court of queen's bench has been so styled.
4 Steph. Comm. 377.
CUSTOS PLACITORUM CORONAE (Lat.) Keeper of the pleas of the crown (the criminal records). Said by Blount and Cowell to be the same as the custos rotulorum. CUSTOS ROTULORUM (Lat.) Keeper of the rolls. The principal justice of the peace of a county, who is the keeper of the records of the county.
1 Bl. Comm. 349.
He is always a justice of the peace and quorum, is the chief civil officer of the king in the county, and is nominated under the king's sign manual. He is rather to be considered a minister or officer than a judge. Blount; Cowell; Lambard, Eiren. lib.
4, c. 3, p. 373; 4 Bl. Comm. 272; 3 Steph. Comm. 37.