A guardian is a person lawfully invested with the power, and charged with the duty, of taking care of the person and managing the property and rights of another person, who, for

The office, duty, or authority of a guardian. Also the relationsubsisting between guardian and ward.

A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman.

In old European law. A provision of necessary things. Spelman. A furnishing or garnishment.

One who had the custody of the royal mansions.

War. Spelman.

In military law. An independent body of marauders or armedmen, not regularly or organically connected with the armies of either belligerent, whocarry on a species of irregular war, chiefly by depredation and

A traveler who lodges at an inn or tavern with the consent of the keeper.Bac. Abr. “Inns,” C, 5; 8 Coke, 32; Mc- Daniels v. Robinson, 20 Vt. 310, 02 Am. Dec.574;

An agister; one who took cattle in to feed in tlie royal forests. Cowell.

In Spanish law. A right of way for narrow carts. White, New Recop. 1. 2, c. 0,

In old English law. That which was given for safe conduct through astrange territory, or another’s territory. Cowell.The office of guiding of travelers through dangerous and unknown ways. 2 Inst. 520.

An Iron or steel plate to be attached to a rail for the purpose otguiding to their place on the rail wheels thrown off the track. Pub. St. Mass. 1SS2, p.1291.

The name of a treatise on maritime law, by an unknownauthor, supposed to have been written about 1071 at Rouen, and considered, incontinental Europe, as a work of high authority.

A voluntary association of persons pursuing the same trade, art, profession,or business, such as printers, goldsmiths, wool merchants, etc., united under a distinctorganization of their own. analogous to that of a corporation,

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild.The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. Themercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed

An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of thedeath penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weightedknife-blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is made to

In criminal law. That quality which imparts criminality to a motive or act, andrenders the person amenable to punishment by the law.That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by

Having committed a crime or tort: the word used by a prisoner in pleadingto an. indictment when he confesses the crime of which he is charged, and by the juryin convicting. Com.

A coin formerly issued by the English mint, but all these coins were calledin in the time of Wm. IV. The word now means only the sum of

The first of August, being the day of St. Peter ad Vinculo.