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Definition of Guardianship
1. Noun. Attention and management implying responsibility for safety. "He is in the care of a bodyguard"
Generic synonyms: Protection
Specialized synonyms: Due Care, Ordinary Care, Reasonable Care, Foster Care, Great Care, Providence, Slight Care
Derivative terms: Care, Charge, Guardian, Tutor
2. Noun. The responsibility of a guardian or keeper. "He left his car in my keeping"
Specialized synonyms: Custody, Hands
Generic synonyms: Duty, Obligation, Responsibility
Derivative terms: Guardian, Keep
Definition of Guardianship
1. n. The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
Definition of Guardianship
1. Noun. The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guardianship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guardianship
Literary usage of Guardianship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri Quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"TITLE XVII. OF THE STATUTORY guardianship OF PATRONS. The same statute of the
Twelve Tables assigns the guardianship of freedmen and ..."
2. A History of French Private Law by Jean Brissaud, Rapelje Howell (1912)
"guardianship AND CUSTODY § 189. guardianship of Minors during the Barbarian Period.
§ 190. Suspension of Actions by or against the Minor. § 201. ..."
3. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"He stood charged, ipso jure, with the guardianship. lie was not entitled to ...
A person who had become charged with a guardianship could only obtain ..."
4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"This coincides at any rate with wrongful imposition of guardianship; and if the
usurper were already under the guardianship of another guardian, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of the Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1889)
"English Doctrine ; guardianship by Nature and Nurture. ... Mr. Macpherson considers
them together, and doubts whether guardianship by nature, ..."
6. A New Collection of Laws, Charters and Local Ordinances of the Governments by Joseph M. White, Ignacio Jordán de Assó y del Río (1839)
"guardianship is the protection which is given and afforded to the free male orphan
... It is certain that the supreme guardianship, or care of orphans, ..."
7. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1823)
"37-) books*. discretion of the lord chancellor to settle the guardianship.
So too when lord Coke says, that the custody of a female child under sixteen^ to ..."
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