custos — /kastas/ A custodian, guard, keeper, or warden; a magistrate … Black's law dictionary
custos brevium — /kastas briyviyam/ In England, the keeper of the writs. A principal clerk belonging to the courts of queen s bench and common pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into those courts. The office was abolished by 1 Win. IV, c. 5 … Black's law dictionary
custos ferarum — /kastas fareram/ A gamekeeper … Black's law dictionary
custos horrei regii — /kastas hohriyay riyjiyay/ In old English law, protector of the royal granary. 2 Bl.Comm. 394 … Black's law dictionary
custos maris — /kastas maeras/ In old English law, warden of the sea. The title of a high naval officer among the Saxons and after the Conquest, corresponding with admiral … Black's law dictionary
custos morum — /kastas moram/ The guardian of morals. The court of queen s bench has been so styled … Black's law dictionary
custos placitorum coronas — /kastas plaesatoram karowniy/ In old English law, keeper of the pleas of the crown. Cowell supposes this office to have been the same with the custos rotulorum. But it seems rather to have been another name for coroner … Black's law dictionary
custos rotulorum — /kastas rotyaloram/ Keeper of the rolls. An officer in England who had the custody of the rolls or records of the sessions of the peace, and also of the commission of the peace itself. He was always a justice of the quorum in the county where… … Black's law dictionary
custos spiritualium — /kastas spiratyuweyliyam/ In English ecclesiastical law, keeper of the spiritualities. He who exercised the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese during the vacancy of the see … Black's law dictionary
custos statum haeredis in custodia existentis meliorem, non deteriorem, facere potest — /kastas steytam hariydas in kastowdiya egzastentas miyliyoram, non datiriyoram, feysariy powtast/ A guardian can make the estate of an existing heir under his guardianship better, not worse … Black's law dictionary
