TUTOR, in the civil law, is one chosen to look to the persons and estate of children left by their fathers and mothers in their minority. A person nominated tutor either by testament or by the relations of the minor, is to decline that office if he have five children alive; if he have any other considerable tutorage; if he be under 25 years of age; if he be a priest or a regent in an university; or if he have any law-suit with the minors, &c. The marriage of a pupil without the consent of his tutor is invalid. Tutors may do any thing for their pupils, but nothing against them; and the same laws which put them under a necessity of preserving the interest of the minors, put them under an incapacity of hurting them.