Conservator
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
A protector, preserver or maintainer; an arbitrator, or umpire; in some jurisdictions, a guardian. Conservator of the peace: a preserver or keeper of the public peace. They were forsimply by right of prescription, land, or by choice of the class came finally to be In old English law. Conservator officer anciently appointed ■was to inquire of all offences conducts.