TUTOR, civil law. A person who has been lawfully¹ appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor².

2. By the laws of Louisiana minors³ under the age of fourteen years, if males, and under the age of twelve years, if females, are both, as to their persons and their estates, placed under the authority of a tutor. Civ. Code, art. 263. Above that age, and until their, majority or emancipation⁴, they are placed under the authority of a curator. Ibid.

TUTOR ALIENUS, Eng. law. The name given to a stranger who enters into the lands of an infant within the age of fourteen), and takes the profits.

2. He may be called to an account by the infant, and be charged as guardian⁵ in socage. Litt. s. 124; Co. Litt. 89 b, 90 a Hargr. n. 1.

TUTOR PROPRTUS. The name given to one who is rightly a guardian in socage in contradistinction, to a tutor alienus. (q. v.)

TUTORSHIP. The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship, (q. v.) Vide Pro-curator; Pro-tutor; Undertutor.

TUTRIX. A woman who is appointed to the office of a tutor.

TWELVE TABLES. The name given to a code of Roman laws, commonly called the Law of the Twelve Tables. (q. v.)