WARDSHIP, Eng. law. Wardship was the right of the lord over the person and estate of the tenant, when the latter was under a certain age.
Small Claims Court(see Court)Society Wardship Order(see Order)Sole Custody(see Custody)SolicitorIn Canada (except Quebec), all lawyers are both barristers and solicitors.
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Costs were first given to a defendant by the Statute of Marlbridge (1267) in a case relating to wardship in chivalry (52 Henry III. c. 6); but costs were not given generally to successful defendants until 1531 (23 Henry VIII. c. 15), ...
[Anglo-French, steward, king's official, from bail stewardship, custody, handing over see bail]
: an officer of some courts in the U.S. whose duties usu. include keeping order in the courtroom and guarding prisoners or jurors in deliberation ...
jurisdiction was confined to mental incompetents, but its rationale is obviously applicable to children and, following the transfer of that jurisdiction to the Lord Chancellor in the seventeenth century, he extended it to children under wardship, ...
Those who held by knight's service were called: milites qui per loricas terras suas defendunt; soldiers who defend the country by their armor. The incidents of knight's service were homage, fealty, warranty, wardship, marriage, reliefs, heriots, ...
 See also: Were, Lawyer, Will, Witness, Warrant
  
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