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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. 

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