# Case ideas from ancient athens [aristotle Athenian Constitution, 56](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26095/pg26095-images.html#part56)These, then, are the festivals which he superintends. The suits and indictments which come before him, and which he, after a preliminary inquiry, brings up before the lawcourts, are as follows. - Injury to parents (for bringing these actions the prosecutor cannot suffer any penalty); - injury to orphans (these actions lie against their guardians); - injury to a ward of state (these lie against their guardians or their husbands), - injury to an orphan's estate (these too lie against the guardians); - mental derangement, where a party charges another with destroying his own property through unsoundness of mind; - for appointment of liquidators, where a party refuses to divide property in which others have a share; for constituting a wardship; - for determining between rival claims to a wardship; for granting inspection of property to which another party lays claim; - for appointing oneself as guardian; - for determining disputes as to inheritances and wards of state. The Archon also has the care of orphans and wards of state, and of women who, on the death of their husbands, declare themselves to be with child; and **he has power to inflict a fine on those who offend against the persons under his charge, or to bring the case before the law-courts**. He also leases the houses of orphans and wards of state until they reach the age of fourteen, and takes mortgages on them; and if the guardians fail to provide the necessary food for the children under their charge, he exacts it from them. Such are the duties of the Archon.