- warrantia custodiae
- /wohr?ensh(iy)a kastowdiyiy/ An old English writ, which lay for him who was challenged to be a ward to another, in respect to land said to be holden by knight-service; which land, when it was bought by the ancestors of the ward, was warranted free from such thraldom. The writ lay against the warrantor and his heirs
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.