||Cus"tos (kŭs"tŏs),
n.; pl. Custodes
(kŭs*tō"dēz). [L.] A keeper; a custodian;
a superintendent. [Obs.]
Custos rotulorum
(rŏt`?*lō"rŭm) [LL., keeper of the rolls]
(Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace in a
county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the
sessions of the peace.