Parents entrust their most valuable 'possessions' to their care.
The courts are such a party and it therefore makes sense to entrust them with this task.
The venture of faith is an act of trust, or of entrusting oneself, in the light of what is believed.
Some are entrusted to sell on the streets the consumer goods received by their children or neighbours in place of wages.
Also, villagers generally know who among them possesses cattle and who not, and maybe even suspect to which herdsmen animals have been entrusted.
Therapeutic professionals are entrusted by other agents to assess the arrangement that will best serve the child's interests.
People entrust their lives in them and believe that they can protect and guide against any evils.
But it seems to me it was a fatal error, though historically probably inevitable, to entrust these two distinct tasks to the same representative assembly.