Family law encompasses divorce, adoption, wardship, child abduction and parental responsibility.
en.wikipedia.org This practice was considered detrimental to the great lords, since it deprived them to a certain extent the fruits of their tenure, such as escheats, marriages, wardships and the like.
en.wikipedia.org Personal protection and revenge, oaths, marriage, wardship, succession, supervision over settlement, and good behaviour, are regulated by the law of kinship.
en.wikipedia.org The king also made him a privy councillor and granted him various lands and some wardships which fell vacant.
en.wikipedia.org Normally his inheritance would have been held in wardship until he reached the age of majority (21).
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