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Excerpt from A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law, Vol. 2 of 8: With Occasional Notes and Comments
Sec-r. 1. General Principles. Our guardians in the United States are, l. B common law, 2, by statutes passed by our legislatures. T e guardian is one who has the care and man agement of the person, or estate, or both, of his ward, whether idiot, minor, non compos, spendthril't, or other: and every guardianship is a more personal trust, and sonot assignable, ortransmissible. Our guardianship seems to include the tutelage and curation of the Roman aw; by it minutely and carefully regulated, viewed as public trusts, persons not legall excused were obliged to perform, and so important, that ifs tutor or curator was removed from his o?ice for fraud, he become infamous. Jus. Inst. Lib. L. Tit. 13 to 26. Dig. 26, c.
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