wardship

But ye come with lies, Man and Snake both, and would have me believe the city is not, and that my wardship ends.

Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the district council--not in the form of bribes, but in the form of unearned salary," he said, as hotly as though someone of those present had opposed his opinion.

In general, however, the concept of royal wardship seems to have survived, though somewhat modified, Magna Carta and subsequent legal changes taking place in the thirteenth century.(11) Indeed, rather than specifically targeting over zealous interpretations of royal rights, any restrictions placed on wardship in this period were more generally aimed at protecting all types of heirs and their estates -- such as rules concerning waste, disparagement of wards, and forced remarriage of widows -- or attempting to close loopholes used to avoid wardships.

When Robert Bacon sought favor from his aunt, Lady Elizabeth Russell, to use her influence to intervene with Lord Burghley for him in a disputed wardship case, he wrote first to his cousin, Anthony Bacon, sending him a draft copy of the letter for his inspection.

Little orphan Alison experiences considerable personal turmoil and legal wrangling over her wardship. The teenager Joan Rawlyns suffers sexual harassment as a servant.

After returning home, the diplomat could expect offices, grants of wardship, leases on crown lands, and monopolies.

(50) On wardship of the mentally disabled (and severely physically ill) in medieval England, see Wendy J.

In May 2011, a judge issued a wardship order, saying the toddler should be returned to the UK.

The fraught choice between Native nation and US nation bedeviled the Society of American Indians (SAI) and frames the central question posed here: Why did the SAI identify the crucial problem of their day as wardship, an ambiguous legal status deemed curable by citizenship?

Forty-seven (47) young people aged 16 to 18 under a wardship order, and due to be discharged from care over a 12-month period (September 1992 to August 1993),1 agreed to participate in the study.

However, Westmorland's greatest coup was the acquisition of the wardship of the young Richard Duke of York in 1423.