Note 70 — XI THE LAW OF NATURE

Although they sometimes dwell on the fact that an institution is to be found among all nations. So Gaius observes of Guardianship, ‘Impuberes in tutela esse omnium civitatium iure contingit, quia id naturali rationi conveniens est ut is, qui perfectae aetatis non sit, alterius tutela regatur; nec fere ulla civitas est in qua non licet parentibus liberis suis impuberibus testamento tutorem dare’ (Inst. i. 189).