Legal glossary
“government ward”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Central Provinces Court of Wards Act, 1899 · s. 2
"Government ward" means any person of whose property, or of whose person and property, the Court of Wards may, for the time being, have the superintendence under this Act;
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