(n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(2) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
(3) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(4) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(5) The US department of justice is understood to have opened an investigation into the death, and four others in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, following a referral from the CIA.
(6) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
(7) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(8) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
(9) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
(10) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(11) Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers Read more In line with the findings of the royal commission, Cavanagh said the increased number of Indigenous people in custody would likely lead to a proportionate increase in custodial deaths.
(12) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(13) Therefore, no institution can be therapeutic for the patient, since its aim must be his custody and violent destruction.
(14) Leyla Yunus has diabetes and hepatitis C. The health of both Yunuses has gravely deteriorated over the year they’ve already spent in custody.
(15) It is understood that this second callout was in relation to the death in custody.
(16) His client has been in custody since Saturday when he was arrested in connection with the New IRA attack.
(17) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(18) This is evidence that custodial workers as a group have had asbestos exposure in the past, as reflected also in the work histories obtained at the time of examination.
(19) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(20) There are two basic findings from the hospitalization outcome literature: Active treatment is more effective than custodial care, and length-of-stay has little influence on later outcome.
Depositary
Definition:
(n.) One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor.
(n.) A storehouse; a depository.
(n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense.
Example Sentences:
(1) But critics claim the channel is a highbrow ghetto - a depositary for programmes that might otherwise have found a terrestrial home on BBC2 and thereby reached a far larger audience.
(2) Among the metapsychological knowledge, we must see: alterity's denial, struggle against thinking's activity, erotically paradoxical transference, receptacle's and depositary's function of therapists, inexistence of containing function.
(3) My office carefully considered all of the legal arguments put forth and concluded in April 2012 , after three years of thorough analysis and public consultations, that Palestine’s status at the UN as “observer entity” was crucial – since entry into the Rome statute system is through the UN secretary general, who acts as treaty depositary.
(4) A high content of glycogen was characteristic of the ciliated cells in which 2 main distribution patterns were observed: the diffuse one and the depositary one.