Tutorship
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The power which an individual, em juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship. TUTRIX (Lat.) A woman who is appointed to the of Sce of a tutor. TUZ (L. F.) All; a corruption of touts. TWA NIGHT GE8T (Sax.) On the second night, a guest. Spelman. See "Guest"
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship. See Procurator; Protutor. TUTRIX (Lat.). A woman who is appointed to the office of a tutor. TW ELF H I N Dl. The highest rank of men in the Saxon government, who were valued at 1,2005. For any injury done to them, satisfaction was to be made according to their worth. Cowell.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The office and power of a tutor.
— Tutorship by nature. After the dissolution of marriage by the death of either husband or wife, the tutorship of minor children belongs of right to the surviving mother or father. This is what is called "tutorship by nafure." Civ. Code La. art. 250.