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  • CUMULATIVE
    Additional; heaping up; increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v. Superior Court 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 285; Regina v. Eastern Archipelago Co., 18 Eng. Law & Eq. 183. More...
  • CUNADES
    In Spanish law. Affinity; alliance; relation by marriage. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit. 6, 1, 5.
  • CUNEATOR
    A coiner. Du Cange. Ctone are, to coin. Cuncus, the die with which to coin. Cuneata, coined. Du Cange; Spelman.
  • CUNTEY-CUNTEY
    In old English law. A kind of trial, as appears from Bract lib. 4, tract 8, ca. 18, and tract 4, ca. 2, where it seems to mean, one by the ordinary jury.
  • CUR.
    A common abbreviation of curia.
  • CURA
    Lat Care: charge; oversight: guardianship. In the civil law. A species of guardianship which commenced at the age of puberty, (when the guardianship called "tutela" expired,) and continued to the completion of the twenty-fifth year. Inst 1, 23, pr.; Id. 1, 25, pr.; Hallifax, Civil Law> b. 1, c 9.
  • CURAGULOS
    One who takes care of a thing.
  • CURATE
    In ecclesiastical law. Properly, an incumbent who has the cure of souls, but now generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or vicar in his cure. An officiating temporary minister in the English church, who represents the proper incumbent; being regularly employed either to serve in his More...
  • CURATEUR
    In French law. A person charged with supervising the administration of the affairs of an emancipated minor, of giving him advice, and assisting him in the important acts of such administration. Du-verger.
  • CURATIO
    In the civil law. The power or duty of managing the property of him who, either on account of infancy or some defect of mind or body, cannot manage his own affairs. The duty of a curator or guardian. Calvin.
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