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TUTOR

Volume 18 · 119 words · 1797 Edition

the civil law, is one chosen to look to the persons and estate of children left by their fathers and mothers in their minority. The different kinds of tutory established among the Romans, and the powers and duties of tutors, are described in Inst. Leg. i. T. XIII. sect. 1. and 2., to which the reader is referred. See also the article Guar- Tutor.—For the nature and effects of tutory in the Scotch law, which is founded on that of the Romans, see Scotch Law, Part III. Sect. 7.

Tutor is also used in the English universities for a member of some college or hall, who takes on him the instructing of young students in the arts and faculties.