Guardian And Ward
Related Category: Legal Terms and Concepts
in law. A guardian is someone who by appointment or by relationship has the care of a person or that person's property, or both.
Within marriage, the relation of husband and wife offered the primordial example of the "law of persons," the dyadic hierarchical relations (parent and child, master and servant, guardian and ward, king and subject were other examples) out of which ...
When the relation of guardian and ward ceases, the latter is entitled to have an account of the administration of his estate from the former.
"Contracts which require uberrimae fidei are those entered into between persons in a particular relationship, as guardian and ward, solicitor and client (and) insurer and insured."
In Coronation Insurance v Taku Air, Canada's Supreme Court wrote: ...
guardianship The office, duty, or authority of a guardian; also the area of the law pertaining to guardian and ward.
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The relationship between parties where trust or confidence is reposed by one and accepted by the other; a confidential relationship whereby one trusts in and relies on another, e.g., parent and child, guardian and ward, husband and wife, ...
 See also: Guardian, Law, Question, Ward, Relation
  
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