Fletcher, Double Marriage

1. The guardian - the tutor in Scottish phrase - of the orphans and their land. E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 252. 2. In law , the guardian of a boy or girl in pupilarity. In the absence of other provision, the father is the tutor, and failing him there may be a tutor nominate, a tutor - at - law , or a tutor dative . A tutor nominate is one nominated in a testament, etc., by the father of the child or children to be placed under guardianship. A father may nominate any number of tutors. A tutor at-law is one who acquires his right by the mere disposition of law, in cases where there is no tutor nominate, or where the tutor nominate is dead, or cannot act, or has not accepted. A tutor dative is one named by the sovereign on the failure of both tutors nominate and tutors-at-law. In civil law it was originally considered as a right of the nearest relative to be named the tutor in order to preserve the fortune for the family, and it was only gradually that the protection of the infant himself came to be considered the principal object, and the filling of the office of tutor more as a duty which had to be fulfilled unle there were special circumstances to excuse, than as a right which a relative could claim. 3. One who has the care of instructing another in various branches or in any branch of learning; a private instructor; also, a teacher or instructor in anything. Thou shalt be as thou wast, The tutor and the feeder of my riots. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 5. 66. IMG:content-1130.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Guardianship; tutelage. This young Duke William, the second of that name and seauenth Duke of Norman die, being vnder tutorship, and not of himselfe to gouerne the country. Verstegan, Rest. of Decayed Intelligence (ed. 1628), p. 169. 2. The office of a tutor or instructor. tutory (tū'tor-i), n. [ Holinshed, Hist. Scotland, an. 1524 (Chron. I.). Their reciprocal prospective rights of tutory were de feated, and the minutio of either tutor or put an end to a subsisting guardianship. Encyc. Brit., XX. 687. tutrice, n. See tuteur. tutrix (tū'triks), n. [ Smollett, Hist. Eng., I. vii. § 28.