in the civil law, is one chosen to look to the persons and estates of children left by their fathers and mothers in their minority. The different kinds of tutors established among the Romans, and the powers and duties of tutors, are described in Inst. leg. i. tom. xiii. sect. 1. and 2. to which the reader is referred. See also the article Guardian.—For the nature and effects of tutors in the Scotch law, which is founded on that of the Romans. See Scots 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 instruction of young students in the arts and faculties.