Tutor in Europe

Definition of Tutor

A person on whom the civil law has imposed the duty of tutela. There were the following varieties: (a) Atilianus or Juliotitianus. A tutor given to a pupil without one. (b) Dativus. A tutor appointed by an authorised magistrate, (c) Fiduciarius. A tutor holding office as if on a trust committed to him by the father. If a j)aterfamilias emancipated a descendant, and then died, leaving male descendants alive, such male descendants became the fiduciary tutors of those emancipated, (d) Honorarium. Tutors excluded from the actual administration of a tutor’s property, (e) Legitimus. A statutory tutor that succeeded to the office under the provisions of some statute or the Twelve Tables. (f) Onerarius. A tutor who actually administered a pupil’s property. (g) Testamentarius. A tutor appointed by will. (Roman Law.)

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Definition of Tutor is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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