GUARDIAN Copy link • GUARDIANThat is intrusted with the care of anything, custos. That has the care of one under age, tutor: curator (of persons of age; Vid: Heinec., Antiq. Rom. Synt., 1, 23, 6, p. 226, sq.). To make anybody a guardian, aliquem tutorem (or curatorem) constituere or instituere: to make anybody the guardian of one’s children, aliquem tutorem instituere filiorum orbitati; tutelam filiorum alicui committere; alicui aliquem tutorem (or curatorem) dare; aliquem alicui tutorem scribere (if appointed by will): to be anybody’s guardian, alicui tutorem esse, alicujus tutorem agere: alicujus tutelam administrare (of one under age): aliquem curare (of one who is of age): to have anybody for one’s guardian, aliquem tutorem habere or in tutela alicujus esse (of one under age): ab aliquo curari (if of age).