Word Finder - custody

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The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.

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The court awarded custody to the child's father.

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Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.

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I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.

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The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.

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He was mistreated while in police custody.

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An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.

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The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.

His father was never able to get custody of him as a child.

He even tried to get custody of Alex.

He didn't succeed in gaining custody.

After all, her husband was the one who had custody of the boy.

Donald talked about some sort of joint custody when he brought him up to meet me.

David and Cynthia Dean had experienced little success in trying to secure a more formal arrangement for long term custody of Martha, managing only undocumented assignment as temporary foster parents.

Has Tessa tried to get custody of him?

The vehicle was in police custody in Norfolk but the authorities there said it would be released to the World Wide local office shortly.

If she doesn't have custody, then why go through all this?

The supreme court is almost without exception a court of appeal with jurisdiction in cases involving at least $2000, in cases of divorce, in suits regarding adoption, legitimacy and custody of children and as regards the legality and constitutionality of taxes, fines, &c. The supreme court appoints courts of appeal to judge cases involving less than $2000.

In 1706 it won the right to appoint its own treasurer to care for money appropriated for extraordinary purposes, and eight years later the governor assented to an act which gave to this officer the custody of practically all public money.

Louis spent the rest of his life separated from his wife, and in 1815 gained the custody of his elder son.

When about 1439 Queen Jane was married to Sir James Stewart, the knight of Lorne, Livingstone obtained the custody of the young king, whose minority was marked by fierce hostility between the Douglases and the Crichtons, with Livingstone first on one side and then on the other.

Besides these public establishments for the custody of lunatics, there are in the vicinity of Dublin various private asylums. The principal institution for blind men (and also those afflicted by gout) is Simpson's hospital (1780), founded by a merchant of Dublin; while blind women are maintained at the Molyneux asylum (1815).

The standards of the British Empire, so far as they relate to the imperial and metric systems, are in the custody of the Board of Trade.

Henry Stafford, 2nd duke of Buckingham, resided a good deal at the castle, and Morton, bishop of Ely, whose custody as a prisoner was entrusted to him, plotted with him there for the dethronement of Richard III., for which Stafford was executed in 1483.

If he has custody, she couldn't get the money.

The kidnapper was the child's mother, a drug addict, who no longer had custody and tried to spirit her daughter away.

They'd never made official application for custody, but when they broached the subject with the authorities it was met with less than enthusiasm.

Still, her objections to adoption went beyond the custody issue.

The same year he was named one of the justices of the peace for his borough; and on the grant of a new charter showed great zeal in defending the rights of the commoners, and succeeded in procuring an alteration in the charter in their favour, exhibiting much warmth of temper during the dispute and being committed to custody by the privy council for angry words spoken against the mayor, for which he afterwards apologized.

As a director of the company, moreover, he was suspected of fraudulent complicity, taken into custody and heavily fined; but £ro,000 was allowed him out of the wreck of his estate, and with this his skill and enterprise soon constructed a second fortune.

She had been separated from her husband for many years, and was at feud with him on questions of property and the custody of their children.

He was a member of the council of state in 1654, and in June 1655 he received the strange appointment of commissioner for the custody of the great seal, for which he was certainly in no way fitted.

In 1642 he was ordered into custody as a delinquent; thereafter he took refuge in Oxford, and ultimately returned to London to the house of William Fuller (1580?-1659), dean of Ely, whose daughter Jane was his second wife.

They are probably of the Norman period, and were kept in the Pyx Chapel at Westminster, now in the custody of the Commissioners of Works.

Ridolfi, the conspirator, was committed to his custody in October 1569, and seems to have deluded.

In spite of the continual struggle for custody, he had felt more welcome at the Medena home than he had with his step-father's family.

Number three was a father taking a son from the boy's mother who held custody rights.

Deep down, I convinced myself we might have a chance for custody of Martha.

We burned our bridges trying to get custody of Martha last winter.

It's temporary custody at first until some court stuff takes place and we're married but the lawyer says Shipton definitely signed.

On the 12th of April he was given the custody of the temporalities, on the 15th of April he was elected, and on the 10th of May provided to the see by a papal bull.

To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion with all the locks and keys into his custody, and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion.

In 1914, after the outbreak of war, Rosa Luxemburg was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for inciting to insubordination and remained throughout the war in preventive custody.

In the manufacturing branches are required skill, and efficient and economical work, both executive and administrative; in the storekeeping part, good arrangement, great care, thorough knowledge of all warlike stores, both in their active and passive state, and scrupulous exactness in the custody, issue and receipt of stores.

In the meantime the functions of the university had been extended to include an oversight of the professional, scientific and technical schools, the administration of laws relating to admission to the professions, the charge of the State Library at Albany, the supervision of local libraries, the custody of the State Museum and the direction of all scientific work prosecuted by the state.

In all countries the national standards of weights and measures are in the custody of the state, or of some authority administering the government of the country.

The duties of churchwardens comprise the provision of necessaries for divine service, so far as the church funds or voluntary subscriptions permit, the collecting the offertory of the congregation, the keeping of order during the divine service, and the giving of offenders into custody; the assignment of seats to parishioners; the guardianship of the movable goods of the church; the preservation and repair of the church and churchyard, the fabric and the fixtures; and the presentment of offences against ecclesiastical law.

Albany had to blockade Margaret in Stirling Castle before she would surrender her sons, After being obliged to capitulate, Margaret returned to Edinburgh, and being no longer responsible for the custody of the king she fled to England in September, where a month later she bore to Angus a daughter, Margaret, who afterwards became countess of Lennox, mother of Lord Darnley and grandmother of James I.

But soon he was recalled, taken into custody, and finally condemned to death.

The cardinal was, by order of the regent, committed to the custody of Lord Seaton; but his imprisonment was merely nominal, and he was soon again at liberty and at the head of the party opposed to the English alliance.

Shortly after Murad's accession the emperor Manuel, having applied in vain for the renewal of the annual subsidy paid him by the late sultan for retaining in safe custody Mustafa, an alleged son of Bayezid, released the pretender.

Horne, thereupon, by a bold libel on the Speaker, drew public attention to the case, and though he himself was placed for a time in the custody of the serjeant-at-arms, the clauses which were injurious to the interest of Mr Tooke were eliminated from the bill.

The name is derived from the original duty attached to the office, - that of the custody or guardianship of the fabric and furniture of the church, - which dates from the 1 4 th century, when the responsibility of providing for the repairs of the nave, and of furnishing the utensils for divine service, was settled on the parishioners.

And, it looks like we're going to have custody!

We're going to have permanent custody!

He was set free in 1667, but in the following year lie was again a prisoner, and he was in custody when he died on the 27th of October 1670.

At this castle Mary queen of Scots was detained in 1569 under the custody of the earls of Huntingdon and Shrewsbury.

He was followed, arrested, his niece seized separately, and sent to join him in custody; and the two, with the secretary Collini, were kept close prisoners at an inn called the Goat.