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Tutela

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A guardianship.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat In the civil law. Tutelage; that species of guardianship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called "tutor," and the ward, "pupillus." 1 Dom. Civil Law, b. 2, tit. 1, p. 260.

Tutela legitima. Legal tutelage; tutelage created by act of law, as where none had been created by testament. Inst. 1, 15, pr.

Tutela testamentaria. Testamentary tutelage or guardianship; that kind of tutelage which was created by will. Calvin.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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In the civil law. Tutelage; that species of guardianship which continued to* the age of puberty. Tutela legitiina: legal tutelage; tutelage created by.act of law. Tutela testainentaria: testamentary tutelage or guardianship; tutelage created by will. Tutela) actio, I.

In the civil law. Ah action of tutelage; an action which lay for a pupil, on termination of tutelage, to compel the tutor to account.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. Guardianship. Tutius erratur ex parte milder side. Twyne's Case. The 3 Coke, 80. Tyrrell's Case. Decided in land, or other property, the legal title recognized and enforced by courts of equity. title is the trustee; the person having the cestui que trust, or beneficiary. created by the words of a deed or will, as trust, one raised by operation of law. implied trusts, which arise upon the dethe beginning, of a grant or express trust; are implied trusts which arise by equitable extension of an express trust. Voluntary for a volunteer, a person who takes as without consideration. Trust-deed: a kind a trustee to secure a numerous class of to foreclose or seU if their bonds or notes employed in large railway or corporation Executory. attachment of the defendant's debts while v. 'Attachment, Garnishmenl. A statu- States, resembling one kind of foreign atbrought a writ. casiigatory., house or town. digging turf. v. Common. v. Court, 33.; illegal. Turpis causa: an illegal concontractus: an immoral contract. Tower of London. Tutor: a guardian. mitiori, I. It is safer to err on the leading case on fraudulent conveyances, that could not have a use upon a u.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

A species of guardian ship in the Roman law; tutelage. See Burrill. Tutela legitima. Tutelage created by law, in the absence of any appoint-, ment by will. Tutela testamentaria. Tutelage created by will.