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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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..
Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
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..
Custody :: Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security..
Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
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..
Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust..
Custodian :: Custodian (n.) One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent..
Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order..
Retention :: Retention (n.) Place of custody or confinement.
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..
Safe-keeping :: Safe-keeping (n.) The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
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..
Safe :: Safe (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe..
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like..
Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.
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