GUARDIAN
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
care of the person or property of another. Civ. Code Cal. § 286.
In the tenure by knight's service, in the feudal law, if the heir of the feud was under the age of twenty-one, being a male, or fourteen, being a female, the lord was entitled to the wardship {and marriage) of the heir, and was called the ‘suardian in chivalry.” This wardship consist-
In the tenure by knight's service, in the feudal law, if the heir of the feud was under the age of twenty-one, being a male, or fourteen, being a female, the lord was entitled to the wardship {and marriage) of the heir, and was called the ‘suardian in chivalry.” This wardship consist-
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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