Under Roman law, there were several forms of tutela ("guardianship" or "tutelage"), mainly for people such as minors and women who ordinarily in Roman society would be under the legal protection and control of a paterfamilias, but who for whatever reasons were sui iuris, legally emancipated.
tutela impuberum, guardianship for minors who were emancipated from the legal control (potestas) of a paterfamilias or head of household [REF].