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Custody vs Durance - What's the difference?

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Custody is a related term of durance.


As nouns the difference between custody and durance

is that custody is the legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children while durance is (obsolete) duration.

custody

English

Noun

(wikipedia custody) (-)
  • The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
    • The court awarded custody to the child's father.
  • Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
    • I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
  • The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
    • He was mistreated while in police custody .

    Derived terms

    * joint custody * maternal custody * paternal custody * protective custody * sole custody

    Related terms

    * custodial * custodian

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    durance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Duration.
  • (obsolete) Endurance.
  • * XIX century , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
    • O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
    Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
    May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small
    Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, [...]
  • (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
    • What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 373:
    • the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance .

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