custody Copy link Outline I. Keeping, guardingII. Confinement, imprisonment • custody: I. Keeping, guarding: custōdia, tūtēla, praesĭdium: v. guard. II. Confinement, imprisonment: vincŭla, orum (lit. chains), carcer (prison): v. imprisonment. Phr.: free c. (the mildest form of confinement), libera custodia, Liv.: Sall. (who has the pl. in liberis custodiis, where several persons are concerned: Cat. 47).
CUSTODY Copy link • CUSTODYImprisonment, custodia (general term): career: vincula, plur. To keep anybody in custody, aliquem custodia asservare: to take anybody into custody, aliquem in custodiam dare, or includere, or condere; comprehendere: to be in custody, in custodia esse: in custodia haberi or servari: custodia teneri or retineri. [☞ For custodia libera, and the different degrees of custody, Vid: IMPRISONMENT.] Charge, cura: custodia: also (The words are found in this connection and order.) cura custodiaque: tutela: praesidium [SYN. in CHARGE]: to have in one’s custody, curare, regere, moderari aliquid: to give into anybody’s custody, credere alicui alicujus rei custodiam; aliquid in custodiam alicujus concredere or committere: to give anybody into anybody’s custody, aliquem alicujus curae custodiaeque mandare; aliquem alicui in disciplinam tradere (for the sake of being taken care of and brought up). Defence, praesidium: custodia (the latter, safeguard). Vid. DEFENCE, PROTECTION.