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  • 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.
  • CURATIVE
    Intended to cure (that is. to obviate the ordinary legal effects or consequences of) defects, errors, omissions, or irregularities. Applied particularly to statutes, a "curative act" being a retrospective law passed in order to validate legal proceedings, the acts of public officers, or private deeds or contracts, which would otherwise More...
  • CURATOR
    In the civil law. A person who is appointed to take care of anything for another. A guardian. One appointed to take care of the estate of a minor above a certain age, a lunatic, a spendthrift or other person not regarded by tbe law as competent to administer it More...
  • CURATORSHIP
    The office of a curator. Curatorship differs from tutorship, {q. v.,) in this; that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the person; while the former la intended to protect, first the person, and secondly, the property. 1 Lee EL Dr. More...
  • CURATRIX
    A woman who has been appointed to the ofilce of curator; a female guardian. Cross' Curatrix v. Cross' Legatees, 4 Grat (Va.) 257. Cwratus non habet titulum. A curate has no title, [to tithes.] 3 Bulst 310.
  • CURE BY VERDICT
    The rectification or rendering nugatory of a defect in the pleadings by the rendition of a verdict; the court will presume, after a verdict, that the particular thing omitted or defectively stated in the pleadings was duly proved at the trial. State v. Keena, 63 Conn. 329, 28 Atl. 522; More...
  • CURE OF SOULS
    In ecclesiastical law. The ecclesiastical or spiritual charge of a parish, including the usual and regular duties of a minister in charge. State v. Bray, 35 N. C 290.
  • CURFEW
    An institution supposed to have been introduced into England by order of William the Conqueror, which consisted in the ringing of a bell or bells at'eight o'clock at night at which signal the people were required to extinguish all lights in their dwellings, and to put out or rake up More...
  • CURIA
    In old European law. A court. The palace, household, or retinue of a sovereign. A judicial tribunal or court held in the sovereign's palace. A oourt of justice. The civil power,* as distinguished from the ecclesiastical. A manor; a nobleman's house; the hall of a manor. A piece of ground More...
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