Subclass of:

• aaao:ZE30 Property Right Status

Scope note:

An instance of custodial status is the collective ascription of a relationship of custodianship of some actor over an object by a community. The substance of the custodial status is the communal commitment to the recognition of the relationship of custodianship over the designated object by the actor in question.

Instances of custodial status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so recognizing this status, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act [e.g.: ZE21 Declarative Transfer of Custody] initiating this status.

Instances of classificatory status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative transfer of custody, or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of custodial status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act of legal transfer of custody, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or be of unknown reason. 

Examples:

• The Custodial Status (ZE7) of the G'psgolox totem pole (E22) as 'has current keeper' maintained by the Swedish National Museum of Ethnography (E74) 1929 - 2006 holds for the Haisla Eagle clan (E74) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%27psgolox_totem_pole)
• The Custodial Status (ZE7) of Banff National Park (E53) as 'has current keeper' maintained by Parks Canada (E74) 19 May 1911 - Present holds for the Government of Canada (E74). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_Canada)

In First Order Logic:

• ZE7(x) ⇒ ZE30(x)

Outgoing properties:

• aaao:ZP20 has custodial subject (is custodial subject of) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E18 Physical Thing
• aaao:ZP21 ascribes custodian (is custodian ascribed by) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E39 Actor
• aaao:ZP22 ascribes custodial relation (is custodial relation ascribed by) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E55 Type