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Communi Custodia

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Communi custodia, an obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight's service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land, and obtained the ward of the body, Reg. Brev. 161.

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