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Safe-keeping :: Safe-keeping (n.) The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.

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..

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

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

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..

Attachment :: Attachment (n.) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

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..

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

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..

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

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

Detention :: Detention (n.) Confinement; restraint; custody.

Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..

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

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

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..

Keep :: Keep (n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.

Guardian :: Guardian (v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs..

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..

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

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