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TUTOR,

Legal Term: TUTOR,
Definition: civil law. A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor.

2. By the laws of Louisiana minors 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 emancipation, they are placed under the authority of a curator. Ibid.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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