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Definition of Guardians
1. guardian [n] - See also: guardian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guardians
Literary usage of Guardians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Guardians.—1. The guardian with us performs the office both of the tutor and
curator of the Roman laws; the former of which had the charge of the ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"Guardians judicially appointed. — The distinction of guardians by nature, and by
socage, seems now to be lost or gone into oblivion, and those several kinds ..."
3. The Lancet (1842)
"Was it fair or reasonable that the guardians should be left, ... The way is
plain ; the ratepayers have their representatives in the guardians, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The agents and instruments by which the administration of relief is afforded are
the following. The guardians of the poor regulate the cases and description ..."
5. The Law of Contracts by Theophilus Parsons, John Melville Gould (1904)
"We have also by statute provisions, guardians of the insane, and of spendthrifts.
All of these rest upon the general principle, that it is the duty of ..."
6. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri Quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"appoint being taken, first, by the consuls, who began to appoint guardians to
pupils of either sex after enquiry into the case, and then by the praetors, ..."
7. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"Guardians of infants, who were in the nature of guardians in socage, might, at
common law, demise the infant's lands for a term of years not extending ..."
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