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guardianship|ˈgɑːdɪənʃɪp| [f. guardian + -ship.] The condition or fact of being a guardian; the office or position of guardian. a. spec. (Legal) tutelage.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices i. (1558) 38 Like as garden⁓shyppe [L. tutela] even so government of the common weale ought to be used to the profit of them to whom it is committed. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 467/1 Euerie heire being in the gardianship of anie lord, when he is growne to be one and twentie yeares of age, ought presentlie to inioy the inheritance left him by his father. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 49 If a Garden assign to a woman more dower then she ought to have, and then grant his Gardenship over, [etc.]. 1651G. W. tr. Cowel's Inst. 18 The Guardianship of wards is double, one by vertue of the common, the other of the Statute Law. 1765Blackstone Comm. i. xvii. 452 Among the antient Greeks and Romans women were never of age, but subject to perpetual guardianship. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 464/2 Guardianship in chivalry is now abolished by the statute 12 Car. II, c. 24. 1875Poste Gaius i. Comm. (ed. 2) 121 Guardianship in Socage occurs when lands descend upon a minor, and devolves by the Common law upon those of his next of blood upon whom the inheritance cannot descend. b. gen. Keeping, protection, guard.
1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 21 Some consider whether the Angell keepers doe ever leave men or no with whose Guardianship they are betrusted. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 244 The same Dominion, the same Victorie, and the same Guardianship or Protection alwaies both of the British Tethys, or Sea, and the Isle it self. a1715Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 809 In the case of lunaticks, the right still remained in him: Only the guardianship, or the exercise of it, was to be lodged with a Prince Regent. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1851) 59, I cannot call that situation nothing..which has the guardianship of religion and morals. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 261 Passing days and nights under the calm guardianship of the laws. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. viii. 88, I left him under the guardianship of Mr. Bonsall's weapon. |