Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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CURIOSA ET OAPTIOSA, ETC.

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CURIA COMITATUS. Thecounty court, (q. v.) CURIA CURSUS AQUiE. A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats plying on the river Thames between Gravesend and Windsor, and also at Graves end bridge, etc. 2 Geo. II. o. 26. CURIA DOMINI. In old English law. The lord's court, house, or hall, where all the tenants met at the time of keeping court. Cowell. CURIA IiEGITIME AFFIRMATA. A phrase used in old Scotch records to show that the court was opened in due and lawful manner. CURIA MAGNA. In old English law. The great court; one of the ancient names of parliament. CURIA MAJORIS. In old English law. The mayor's court. Calth. 144. CURIA MILITUM. A court so called, anciently held at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Cowell. CURIA PALATII. The palace court. It was abolished by 12 & 13 Viet. c. 101. Curia parliament! suis propriis legi bus subsistit. 4 Inst. 50. The court of parliament is governed by its own laws. CURIA PEDIS PULVERIZATI. In old English law. The court of piedpoudr* or piepouders, (q. ©.) 3 61. Comm. 32. CURIA PENTICIARUM. A court held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the "Pendice" or "Pentice;" proba bly it was so called from being originally held under a pent-house, or open shed cov ered with boards. Blount. CURIA PERSONS. In old records. A parsonage-house, or manse. Cowell. CURIA REGIS. The king's court. A term applied to the aiUa regis, the bancus, or communis bancus, and the iter or eyre, as being courts of the king, but especially to the aula regis, (which title see.) CURIJE CHRISTIANITATIS. Courta of Christianity; ecclesiastical courts. CURIALITY. In Scotch law. Curtesy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court. Curiosa et captiosa interpretatio in lege reprobatur. A curious [overnice or

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 their fires, and retire to rest, and all companies to disperse. The word is probably derived from the French couvre feu, to cover the fire. 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 court of justice. The civil power, as distinguished from the ecclesiastical. A manor; a noble man's house; the hall of a manor. A piece of ground attached to a house; a yard or court-yard. Spelman. A lord's court held in his manor. The tenants who did suit and service at the lord's court. A manse. Cowell. In Roman law. A division of the Bo man people, said to have been made by Romulus. They were divided into three tribes, and each tribe into ten curice, making thirty curia in all. Spelman. The place or building in which each curia assembled to offer sacred rites. The place of meeting of the Roman senate; the senate house. The senate house of a province; the place where the decuriones assembled. Cod. 10, 81, 2. See DECTJRIO. CURIA ADMIRALITATIS. The court of admiralty. CURIA ADVISARI VULT. L. Lat. The court will advise; the court will con sider. A phrase frequently found in the re ports, signifying the resolution of the court to suspend judgment in a cause, after the argument, until they have deliberated upon the question, as where there is a new or dif ficult point involved. It is commonly ab breviated to cur. adv. vult, or c. a. v. CURIA BARONIS, or BARONUM. In old English law. A court-baron. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 53. Curia cancellarira offleina justitise. 2 Inst. 552. The court of chancery is the work shop of justice. CURIA CHRISTIANITATIS. The ecclesiastical court. CURIA CIiAUDENDA. The name of a writ to compel another to make a fence or wall, which he was bound to make, between his land and the plaintiff's. Reg. Orig. 155. Now obsolete.

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