Definition of custody

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

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Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..
Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..
Keeper :: Keeper (n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
Bank :: Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..
Custodial :: Custodial (a.) Relating to custody or guardianship.
Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.
Bail :: Bail (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one..
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..
Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
Ward :: Ward (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
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..
Custodian :: Custodian (n.) One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent..
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty..
Custody :: Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security..
Attachment :: Attachment (n.) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
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..
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..
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..
Prison :: Prison (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody..
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