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Guardian In Socagh

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A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Atthe common law, this was a species of guardian who had the custody of lands coming to the infant by descent, as also of the infant’s person, until the latter reached the age of fourteen Such guardian was always “the next of kin to whom the inheritance cannot possilly descend.” -1 Bl. Comm. 461; 2 Steph. Comm, 333. GUARDIAN OF THE PEACH A warden or conservator of the peace,