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Lines 1.317-1.325
Roman Law and Society, Institutes of Justinian 1.317-325
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15. Grammarians, rhetoricians, and physicians at Rome, and those who exercise such professions in their own country, and are within the number authorized, are exempted from being tutors or curators.
16. If a person wishes to excuse himself, and has several excuses, even supposing some are not admitted, there is nothing to prevent him employing others, providing he does so within the prescribed time. Those who wish to excuse themselves are not to appeal, but whatever kind of tutors they may be, that is, however they may have been appointed, must offer their excuses within the fifty days next after they have known of their appointment, if they are within a hundred miles of the place when they were appointed. If they are at a greater distance they are allowed a day for every twenty miles, and thirty days besides; but the time should, as Scaevola said, be so calculated as never to be less than fifty days in the whole.
17. The tutor who is appointed is considered as appointed for the whole patrimony.
18. A person who has discharged the office of tutor is not compelled against his will to become the curator of the same person; so much so, that although the father, after appointing a tutor by testament, adds that he also appoints the same person to be curator, the person so appointed if unwilling cannot be compelled to take the office of curator; so it has been decided by the rescript of the Emperors Severus and Antoninus.
19. The same emperors have decided by rescript, that a husband appointed as curator to his wife may excuse himself from the office, even after he has intermeddled with her affairs.