Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

GUARDIAN BY STATUTE

GUIDAGE

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the person of the child to the age of twenty one years. Sometimes called " natural guard ian, " but this is rather a popular than a tech nical mode of expression. 2 Steph. Comm. 337. GUARDIAN BY STATUTE. A guard ian appointed for a child by the deed or last will of the father, and who has the custody both of his person and estate until the attain ment of full age. This kind of guardian ship is founded on the statute of 12 Car. II. c. 24, and has been pretty extensively adopted in this country. 1 Bl. Comm. 462; 2 Steph. Comm. 339. 340; 2 Kent, Comm. 224-226. GUARDIAN DE L'EGLISE. A church-warden. GUARDIAN DE L'ESTEMARY. The warden of the stannaries or mines in Corn wall, etc. GUARDIAN FOR NURTURE. The father, or, at his decease, the mother, of a child. This kind of guardianship extends only to the person, and determines when the infant arrives at the age of fourteen. 2 Kent, Comm. 221; 1 Bl. Comm. 461; 2 Steph. Comm. 338. GUARDIAN IN CHIVALRY. 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 ward ship (and marriage) of the heir, and was called the "guardian in chivalry." This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any account of the profits. 2 Bl. Comm. 67. GUARDIAN IN SOCAGE. At the common law, this was a species of guardian who had the custody of lands coming to the infant by descent, as also of the infant's per son, until the latter reached the age of four teen Such guardian was always "the next of kin to whom the inheritance cannot pos sibly descend." 1 Bl. Comm. 461; 2 Steph. Comm. 338. GUARDIAN OF THE PEACE. A warden or conservator of the peace. GUARDIAN OF THE POOR. In English law. A person elected by the rate payers of a parish to have the charge and management of the parish work-house or union. See 3 Steph. Comm. 203, 215. GUARDIAN OF THE SPIRITUAL ITIES. The person to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of any diocese is committed dur ing the vacancy of the see.

GUARDIAN OF THE TEMPORAL ITIES. The person to whose custi>dy a va cant see or abbey was committed by the crown. GUARDIAN, or WARDEN, OF THE CINQUE PORTS. A magistrate who ha» the jurisdiction of the ports or havens which are called the "Cinque Ports," (q. v.) This office was first created in England, in imita tion of the Roman policy, to strengthen the sea-coasts against enemies, etc. GUARDIANSHIP. The office, duty, or authoiityof a guardian. Also the relation subsisting between guardian and ward. GUARDIANUS. A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman. GUARNIMENTUM. In old European law. A provision of necessary things. Spel man. A furnishing or garnishment. GUASTALD. One who had the custody of the royal mansions. GUBERNATOR. Lat. In Roman law~ The pilot or steersman of a ship. GUERPI, GUERPY. L. Fr. Aban doned; left; deserted. Britt. c. 33. GUERRA, GUERRE. War. Spelman. GUERILLA PARTY. In military law. An independent body of marauders or armed men, not regularly or organically connected with the armies of either belligerent, who carry on a species of irregular war, chiefly by depredation and massacre. GUEST. A traveler who lodges at an inn or tavein with the consent of the keeper. Bac. Abr. "Inns," C, 5; 8 Coke, 32. A guest, as distinguished from a boarder, is bound for no stipulated time. He stops at the inn for as short or as long time as he pleases, paying, while he remains, the cus tomary charge. 24 How. Pr. 62. GUEST-TAKER. An agister; one who took cattle in to feed in the royal forests. Co well. GUET. In old French law. Watch. Ord. Mar. liv. 4, tit. 6. GUIA. In Spanish law. A right of way for narrow caits. White, New Recop. 1. 2, c. 6, § 1. GUIDAGE. In old English law. That which was given for safe conduct through a strange territory, or another's territory. Cowell. The office of guiding of travelers through dangerous and unknown ways. 2 Inst. 526~

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