[PAULUS libro trigesimo octauo ad edictum. ] §26.1.1.prTutela est, ut Seruius definit, uis ac potestas in capite libero ad tuendum eum, qui propter aetatem sua sponte se defendere nequit, iure ciuili data ac permissa.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, Book 38.] Guardianship is, as Servius defines it, a force and power over a free person, given and permitted by the civil law, for protecting one who, on account of their age, is unable to defend themselves of their own accord.
§26.1.1.1Tutores autem sunt qui eam uim ac potestatem habent, exque re ipsa nomen ceperunt: itaque appellantur tutores quasi tuitores atque defensores, sicut aeditui dicuntur qui aedes tuentur.
Moreover, guardians are those who have that force and power, and they received their name from the thing itself; therefore they are called guardians as if they were protectors and defenders, just as those who protect temples are called temple-keepers.
§26.1.1.2Mutus tutor dari non potest, quoniam auctoritatem praebere non potest.
A mute person cannot be appointed as a guardian, since they cannot give their authorization.
§26.1.1.3Surdum non posse dari tutorem plerique et Pomponius libro sexagesimo nono ad edictum probant, quia non tantum loqui, sed et audire tutor debet.
Most authorities, as well as Pomponius in his sixty-ninth book On the Edict, approve the view that a deaf person cannot be appointed as a guardian, because a guardian ought not only to speak but also to hear.