Also 5 tutry, 6 tutoury. [f. TUTOR: see -ORY1. The form tutry is ad. OF. tutrie, tuterie, from tuteur.]
1. Guardianship, charge, protection; spec. the custody of a ward. Obs. exc. in Law.
Tutory-at-law, tutory dative, etc.: cf. tutor-at-law, etc. (TUTOR sb. 2 b).
c. 1400. Sc. Trojan War, II. 1624. Þir two sonnes, quhen þai war ȝing, War gevin in tutory and keping To king Teuteus.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 264. Gif a man war our ȝong, within elde of tutry.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., VIII. (S.T.S.), II. 65. Alexander Ogiluie,… in quhais tutorie was Johne Ogiluie, his oy.
1614. in Ramsay, Bamff Charters (1915), 175. To exerce the said office of tutorie to the weill of the saidis bairnis. Ibid. (1643), 262. Borrowing of money … be the tutour befoir the expyreing of his tutorie.
1754. Tutory dative [see DATIVE a. 4 c].
a. 1768. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., I. vii. § 1. Tutory … is a power and faculty to govern the person, and to manage the estate, of a pupil.
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., 1018. The tutory may … expire by the tutor’s renunciation made on reasonable cause.
1880. Muirhead, Ulpian, xi. § 9. A tutory-at-law is lost by capitis deminutio.
attrib. a. 1768. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., I. vii. § 32 (1773), 131. All purchases made by the tutor,… till settling the tutory-accounts.
† 2. Tuition, instruction. Obs. rare.
1692. A. Pitcairn, Assembly, V. i. (1766), 62. The Tutory of Mr. Salathiel, who is as profess’d an Enemy to poor Priscian … as he is to King James.
1764. Reid, Inquiry, vi. § 24. Reason and reflection must superadd their tutory in order to produce a Rousseau, a Bacon, or a Newton.
