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Custody :: Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security..

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty..

Prisoner :: Prisoner (n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court..

Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Hold :: Hold (n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..

Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..

Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

Exemplification :: Exemplification (n.) A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.

Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

Baston :: Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court..

Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.

Custodial :: Custodial (a.) Relating to custody or guardianship.

Bail :: Bail (n.) Custody; keeping.

Parole :: Parole (n.) Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially (Mil.), promise, upon one's faith and honor, to fulfill stated conditions, as not to bear arms against one's captors, to return to custody, or the like..

Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..

Handfast :: Handfast (n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.

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