- detention: a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police"
- holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody"
- hands: (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children"
- Custody is a 2007 Lifetime television movie, starring Rob Morrow, James Denton, and Kay Panabaker about a widower's fight for custody of his stepdaughter when her birth father who abandoned her returns. Aired on September 8, 2007. ...
- "Custody" is the fourth episode in the third season of the Canadian police drama television series Flashpoint. The episode first aired on October 16, 2009.
- Possession of something or someone
- Care and keeping of anything, i.e., children in a domestic relations action.
- Immediate control that an authority exercises over property or people.
- Detaining of a person by lawful process or authority to assure his or her appearance to any hearing; the jailing or imprisonment of a person convicted of a crime.
- The care and keeping of property (real and personal). For example: An escrow agent has custody of documents and funds until closing.
- Determination by a court which establishes with whom a child will live.
- Means the charge and control of a child including the right to make all major decisions such as education, religious upbringing, training, health and welfare. Custody, without qualification usually refers to a combination of physical custody and legal custody. ...
- the possession of an item or child. Legal custody means that the possession has been granted by the courts; physical custody refers to the actual physical location of the item or child.
- As used at 43 CFR 10.3 – 6, custody means ownership or control of human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony excavated intentionally or discovered inadvertently in [sic] Federal or tribal lands after November 16, 1990 [43 CFR 10.6 (a)]
- The keeping, care, watch, preservation or security of a record. While physical possession of a record may not always constitute custody, it is the best evidence of custody.
- subsection of a province within the Franciscan order
- When a person is kept in prison, unless they are in police custody, when they are kept in a police cell.
- Previously the term in the UK for the parent who had chief rights over the children. This term is still used in the US.
- The offender's custody classification. The custody assignments are:
- A person who is in custody is either in a remand centre (awaiting a hearing) or in prison, serving out a sentence.
- The physical location of the records or archives. Custody does not always include legal ownership, or the right to control access to records. Ellis (ed), Keeping Archives, p. ...
- The legal right given to a person of official authority to exercise complete and immediate control over a person to insure appearance in court. Custody also refers to the actual imprisonment of the accused after a criminal conviction.
- In family law, this term traditionally refers party with whom the child lives and at whose home the child eats and sleeps for the majority of the time. ...
- The point at which the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) assumes responsibility and control of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) [see definition, page 40] from the Purchaser (10CFR961). ...
- Charge or control of a person or item of property.