in Scots law, a person legally empowered to act for another whom the law presumes incapable of acting for himself. Thus tutors or curators are sometimes styled administrators in law to pupils, minors, or fatuous persons. But more generally the term is used to imply that power which is conferred by the law upon a father over the persons and estates of his children during their minority. See Law, title, Minors, and their tutors and curators.

is sometimes used for the president of a province; for a person appointed to receive, manage, and distribute the revenues of an hospital or religious house; for a prince who enjoys the revenues of a secularized bishopric; and for the regent of a kingdom, during a minority of the prince, or a vacancy of the throne.