Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), K, Curtius Rufus, Custodia

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Custodia

A watching, guard, or care of anything; hence the word comes to mean

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custody, confinement, or restraint of a person;

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persons set as a guard or watch;

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the place where a guard is kept;

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a prison, or place where a person is guarded;

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persons in confinement or subject to any restraint.

Custodia rei is a technical term for the charge which a person undertakes of a thing intrusted to him by another, on account of which he is liable for any loss due to his dolus or culpa. See Culpa.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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