Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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CUNADES

CURFEW

CURATOR. In the civil law. A per son who is appointed to take care of any thing for another. A guardian. One .ap pointed to take care of the estate of a minor above a certain age, a lunatic, a spendthrift, or other person not regarded by the law as competent to administer it for himself. The title was also applied to a variety of public officers in Roman administrative law. In Scotch law. The term means a guard ian. In Louisiana. A person appointed to take care of the estate of an absentee. Civil Code La. art. 50. In Missouri. The term "curator" has been adopted from the civil law, and it is applied to the guardian of the estate of the ward as distinguished from the guardian of his person. 49 Mo. 117. CURATOR AD HOC. In the civil law. A guardian for this purpose; a special guard ian. CURATOR AD LITEM. Guardian for the suit. In English law, the corresponding phrase is "guardian ad litem." CURATOR BONIS. In the civil law. A guardian or trustee appointed to take care of property in certain cases; as for the ben efit of creditors. Dig. 42, 7. In Scotch law. The term is applied to guardians for minors, lunatics, etc. CURATORES VIARUM. Surveyors of the highways. CURATORSHIP. The office of a cura tor. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q. ©.,) in this; that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the person; while the former is intended to protect, first, the person, and secondly, the property. 1 Lee. El. Dr. Civ. Rom. 241. CURATRIX. A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator; a female guardian. 4 Grat. 227. Curatus non habet titulum. A curate has no title, [to tithes.] 3 Bulst. 310. CURE BY VERDICT. See AIDER BY VERDICT. C U R E OF SOULS. In ecclesiastical law. The ecclesiastical or spiritual charge of a parish, including the usual and regular duties of a minister in charge. CURFEW. An institution supposed to have been introduced into England by order

eers to bo chosen, is allowed to concentrate the whole number of his votes upon one per Bon, or to distribute them as he may see fit. For example, if ten directors of a corpora tion are to be elected, then, under this sys tem, the voter may cast ten votes for one per son, or five votes for each of two persons, etc. It is intended to secure representation of a minority. CUNADES. In Spanish law. Affinity; alliance; relation by marriage. Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 6,1. 5. CUNEATOR. A coiner. Du Cange. Cuneare, to coin. Cuneus, the die with which to coin. Cuneato, coined. Da Cange; Spelman. CUNTEY-CUNTEY. In old English law. A kind of trial, as appears from Bract, lib. 4, tract 3, 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 guardian ship which commenced at the age of puber ty, (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. Prop erly, 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, w ho represents the proper incumbent; being regularly employed either to serve in his absence or as his assistant, as the case maybe. 1 Bl. Comm. 393; 3 Steph. Comm. 88; Brande. CURATEUR. In French law. A per son charged with supervising the admin istration of the affairs of an emancipated minor, of giving him advice, and assisting him in the important acts of such adminis tration. Duverger. CURATIO. In the civil law. The pow er 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 guard Ian. Calvin.

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