Lat. Care; charge; oversight; guardianship . In the civil law . A species of guardianship which commenced at the age of puberty, (when the guardianship called “tutela” expired,) and continued to the completion of the twenty-fifth year. Inst. 1, 23, pr.; Id. 1, 25, pr.; Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 1, c. 9.
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