Definition of Custody case

1. Noun. A legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce).

Generic synonyms: Action, Action At Law, Legal Action
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Custody Case

custodes
custodes regni
custodia
custodial
custodial account
custodial care
custodian
custodians
custodianship
custodianships
custodier
custodiers
custodies
custody
custody battle
custody case (current term)
custom
custom-built
custom-made
custom-make
custom house
custom houses
custom made
customable
customableness
customably
customaries
customarily
customariness
customarinesses

Literary usage of Custody case

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor of Connecticut by Isaac William Stuart (1859)
"Trumbull charged specially with their custody. Case of Franklin particularly described Other prisoners—where from—"where confined. ..."

2. Racist Violence in the United Kingdom by Carl Haacke, Human Rights Watch (1997)
"... been one prosecution of a police officer involved in a death in custody case. Even in cases where there has been an inquest verdict of unlawful killing, ..."

3. The Law of Receiverships: As Established and Applied in the United States by John Wilson Smith (1897)
"The right of custody case of a mortgage foreclosure the extends only to the property which is right to possession extends only to the the subject-matter of ..."

4. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"She was discharged in her own custody. CASE 44. A native of Italy. Age 36 years. A married woman. This patient landed in the United States in 1908. ..."

5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"... that the state had no authority to surrender the prisoner, and he was accordingly discharged from custody. Case Ex parte Holmes, 12 Vermont, 631. ..."

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