NURTUR

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  NURTURE. The act of taking care of children and educating them: the right to 
  the nurture of children generally belongs to the father till the child shall 
  arrive at the age of fourteen years, and not longer. Till then, he is 
  guardian by nurture. Co. Litt. 38 b. But in special cases the mother will be 
  preferred to the father; 5 Binn. R. 520; 2 S. & R. 174; and after the death 
  of the father, the mother is guardian by nurture. Fl. 1. 1, c. 6; Com. Dig. 


  Guardian, D.