custody
IPA: kˈʌstʌdi
noun
- The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
- Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
- The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
- (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
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Examples of "custody" in Sentences
- The father had legal custody of the boy.
- They maltreat the children while in custody.
- The court restored custody to the grandparents.
- He was in the custody of the Correctional Center.
- The mother is usually granted custody of the child.
- He held the custody of the children after the divorce.
- We all know what a Friday night in custody is like - mad.
- If the defendant merely had custody, the crime is larceny.
- Hasselhoff obtained custody of the children in the divorce.
- But while the suspect is in custody another optician is killed.
- In practice the records were in the custody of the clerk of the peace.
- The counter in custody is not a blind spot. on September 9, 2009 at 11: 09 am Anon
- If they got the right guy, the guy they have in custody is a major and a psychiatrist.
- Being in custody is not supposed to be like checking in to the VIP lounge at Heathrow Airport.
- The man in custody is Nigerian, and police confirm he has been deported eight times but keeps returning using phony passports.
- Gates was playing with fire and 4 hours in custody is not good but not terrible – I don't think he was out of line, but the police also have their lives on the line
- There are probably even situations where not intervening against a parent slapping a child in custody is the right decision, when the child would learn from the punishment.
- In the absence of a reasonable or founded suspicion that a person in custody is concealing weapons or contraband, a person in custody on a misdemeanor or other minor offense has a constitutional right to be free from warrantless strip searches (see People v Kelley, 306 AD2d 699, 700 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 598 [2004]; People v Jennings, 297 AD2d 644 [2002]).