"Legal guardian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it. I am not, of course, her legal guardian, and so I cannot prevent it in that way. ...
— Glory of Youth • Temple Bailey
... papers make him the representative of Colonel Valois. He is legal guardian of the child. He will try and induce "Kaintuck" to quit the rancho. Then he will be able to open the mines. If the Confederacy totters to its fall, with the control of that wealth he may yet hold the highest ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... riding over from Shrewsbury? Well, his father came today—Sir Richard Cludde, a big red-faced bully of a man. He's Lucy's uncle, you know; her father was his brother, and they quarreled, and hadn't seen each other for twenty years. But now he declares that he is Lucy's legal guardian; his brother died suddenly and left no will, and he came today to claim her as his ward. Father wouldn't hear of it; but told him Lucy had been brought here by the express command of her father, and he refused to give her up. The squire was in a terrible rage: 'tis ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... madame," said the sheriff; "we shall make you legal guardian of the property. The law gives you forty sous a day, and that's not ...
— The Brotherhood of Consolation • Honore de Balzac
... I acquiesce. But you will scarcely wonder, Miss Marvell, after this interview between us, if you find yourself henceforward under observation. You are here in defiance of Miss Blanchflower's legal guardian. I protest against your influence over her; and I disapprove of your presence here. I shall do my best to protect her ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward |
