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Home Dictionary Name: tutortutor
tutor in the civil law of Louisiana : a guardian of a minor or sometimes of a person with mental retardation compare committee, conservator, curator tu·tor·ship n ...
Tutor
Tutor, a guardian; a protector; an instructor.Means one who teaches, especially a private instructor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1521...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
Restitutio in integrum
Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with respect to one another, which they occupied before the contract was made, or the transaction took place. The restitutio here spoken of is founded on the edict. If the contract or transaction is such as not to be valid, according to the jus civile this restitutio is not needed, and it only applies to cases of contracts and transactions, which are not in their nature or form invalid. In order to entitle a person to the restitutio, he must have sustained some injury capable of being estimated, in consequence of the contract or transaction, and not through any fault of his own, except in the case of one who is minor xxv. Annorum, who was protected by the restitutio against the consequences of his own carelessness.The following are the chief cases in which a restitutio might be decreed:-The case of vis et metus. When a man had acted under the influence of force or...
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 some matter ;esp : a group of fellow legislators chosen by a legislative body to consider legislative matters (as drafting bills or conducting hearings) [the Senate judiciary ] see also conference committee, joint committee b : a private organization for the promotion of a common object [political action s] compare council ...
conservator
conservator 1 : a person, official, or institution appointed 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 : an official placed in charge of a bank because its affairs are not in a satisfactory condition con·ser·va·tor·ship n ...
curator
curator [Latin, guardian, from curare to take care of] in the civil law of Louisiana : a person appointed by a court to care for the property of an absent person or to care for the person or property of someone mentally incapable of doing so compare committee, conservator, guardian, interdict, tutor cu·ra·tor·ship n ...
family meeting
family meeting in the civil law of Louisiana : a formal extrajudicial meeting of relatives or next friends of a minor or interdict held esp. to advise a court, curator, or tutor ...
guardian
guardian : one who has or is entitled or legally 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 lawsuit the interests of a minor, a person not yet born, or a person judged incompetent guardian by nature : natural guardian in this entry natural guardian : a guardian by natural relationship having custody of the person but not the property of a minor NOTE: Under common law the father is considered the natural guardian of a child until his death or incapacitation, whereupon the mother becomes the natural guardian. Many states have passed statutes giving both parents equal rights as guardians. statutory guardian : a guardian appointed by statutory authority testamentary guardian : a person named in a will to serve as a guardian guard·ian·ship n ...
interdict
interdict 1 : something that prohibits 2 : one that has been interdicted compare ward [in-tər-dikt] vt 1 in the civil law of Louisiana : to deprive (a person) 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 (as a drug shipment) by force ...
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