MUND

mund (m[schwa]nd or muund). [Old English “hand”] Hist. A right to protection or guardianship; a guardian. Cf. MANUS(1). “Once more we see prerogatival rights growing, while feudal claims fall into the background; and in the case of lunacy we see a guardianship, a mund, which is not profitable to the guardian, and this at present […]