custody [English]
Syndetic Relationships
InterPARES Definition
n. ~ IP2 · The basic responsibility for guardianship of records/archives based upon their physical possession but not necessarily
implying legal title.
Other Definitions
- Black's 9th 2009 (†382 s.v. "custody"): The care and control of a thing or person for inspection, preservation, or security.
- IP2 Dictionary (†242 s.v. custody): n., The basic responsibility for guardianship of records/archives based upon their physical possession but not necessarily implying legal title. [Archives] n., The care and control of a thing or person for inspection, preservation, or security. [Government]
- IP2 Glossary (†386 s.v. custody): n., The basic responsibility for guardianship of records/archives based upon their physical possession but not necessarily implying legal title. [Archives - Dictionary of Archival Terminology ]
- OED 3rd (CD) 2004 (†499 ): 1. Safe keeping, protection, defence; charge, care, guardianship.
Citations
- Duranti 2013 (†408 ): The primary justification of custody is historical accountability: the citizens have a right to access the documentary evidence of how they were governed. For this to happen, the documents must be under the physical and intellectual control of a neutral third party. (†489)
- Jenkinson 1922 (†502 p. 8-9.): Perhaps on account of a false derivation the test of Archive quality has been generally taken to be that of age; but a more satisfactory limitation would probably be the point at which, having ceased to be in current use, they are definitely set aside for preservation, tacitly adjudged worthy of being kept. Unfortunately the time at which this occurs must obviously vary with circumstances. The closest definition, therefore, that we can use in this matter is to say that the documents are set aside for preservation in official custody. (†780)