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Guardianship
Guardianship. The care of and responsibility for a person of non-age or infancy in regard to its person or property, or both. At Common Law, the father is the guardian by nature and nurture but the...
tutrix
tutrix pl: tu·tri·ces [tü-trī-sēz, tyü-; tü-trə-sēz, tyü-] or: tu·trix·es [-trik-səz] : a female tutor
prescribe
claim for damages shall not be prescribed so long as the minor's right of action exists against his tutor "Louisiana Civil Code"]
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interdict
of the right to care for one's own person or affairs because of mental incapacity compare commit, curator, tutor 2 : to authoritatively prohibit or bar (an act or conduct) 3 : to intercept or cut off
guardian
appointed to the care and management of the person or property of another compare committee, conservator, curator, receiver, tutor guardian ad li·tem [-ad-lī-təm, -Ä d-lē-tem] : a guardian appointed by a court to represent in a particular
family meeting
of relatives or next friends of a minor or interdict held esp. to advise a court, curator, or tutor
curator
care for the person or property of someone mentally incapable of doing so compare committee, conservator, guardian, interdict, tutor cu·ra·tor·ship n
conservator
by a court to take over and manage the estate of an incompetent compare committee, curator, guardian, receiver, tutor 2 : a public official charged with the protection of something affecting public welfare and interests ;specif :
committee
committee 1 : a person to whom a charge (as an incompetent) is committed compare conservator, curator, guardian, tutor 2 a : a body of persons delegated or assigned to consider, investigate, act on, or report on
Brief, or Brieve, out of the Chancery
of the Chancery, a writ issued in Scotland in the name of the sovereign in the election of tutors to minors, the cognoscing of lunatics or of idiots, and ascertaining the widow's terce; and sometimes in dividing
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