Custody is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CUSTODY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• guardianship
• the protective care or guardianship of someone or something
• responsibility for the care, maintenance, and upbringing of a child or children
• imprisonment
• A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
• Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
• State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
• a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
• holding by the police
• (with `in\') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
• protective care

Words related to CUSTODY

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How to use CUSTODY in a sentence

• The judge then ordered the Prophet and Roddy Duncan to be taken into custody, and an indictment of perjury to be prepared at once.
• And to his apartments those who had the custody of the king and queen at first conducted them.
• A prisoner, travelling in custody to the place of execution, would naturally not fill his letters with long and elaborate references.
• As of two years later, all this property remained in police custody.
• It would be necessary for you to prove that relation here and now, by new and independent evidence, before we could place the boy in your custody under any circumstances.
• The prize was brought into Key West on the 31st April and the negroes were delivered into the custody of Fernando J.
• The only ground on which that custody can be desired by the banks is the profitable use which they may make of the money.
• I should be very glad, if they were in safer custody, for they are not meat proper for traitors.
• Besant has, after some little difficulty, recovered the custody of her daughter.
• Then quoth I, In good fellowship tell me the order of this custody and how it is.
• She was also rather glad that she had left her pearls in the safe custody of M.
• John Oldham, having Thomas Morton in custody, landed at Plymouth, England, not long after Endicott left for America.
• Help must have come to him very speedily and to good purpose, for I soon found myself in custody, two colossal gendarmes holding me tight on each side.
• Colonel Rossel was arrested yesterday and handed over to the custody of Citizen Gerardin.
• She remained there two nights and a day, when, after experiencing insolent treatment from the soldiers who had her in custody, she was directed to return to Nimeguen.
• Bankes moved that both members be taken into custody by the serjeant-at-arms.
• The first care of Sir John, after the termination of the revolt, concerned the disposal of the prisoners, of whom a great number remained in custody.
• Keep safe each and all in Thy custody and under Thy protection.
• The prolonged absence of Mr Renshawe confirmed my impressions of his guilt, and I determined to tax him with it, and take him into custody the instant he appeared.
• On taking us into custody, they stated the grounds on which they arrested us.
• The cloud, moreover, controls the sun, not merely by keeping the custody of his rays, but by becoming the counsellor of his temper.
• Foote and Ramsey were brought up in custody, but were brave and bright with courage unbroken.
• The parents can at any time consent to surrender the custody of their minor children and transfer this custody to another by agreement.
• Gentlemen of the jury, I recommend that John Belden be released from custody and permitted to go home.
• The prison, too, was forced open by the Rhodians, and those prisoners whom Philip had shut up there, as in the safest custody, were set at liberty.
• But the despotism of the monarchs of the Old World is by no means restricted to this question of the control and custody of the junior members of their respective families.
• I approved his action, and ordered General Pike sent to Little Rock in custody.
• Harker’s custody, we had from the first naturally discussed the day’s proceedings a good deal.
• In the event of a divorce the mother is always allowed the custody of the children.
• He had the entire custody of the children, full control of anything she might earn, and the law did not recognize drunkenness as a cause for divorce.
• McFarland was tried, acquitted on the ground of insanity, given the custody of their little son and allowed to go free.

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