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CURIA CANdELLARUS OFFICINA

CURATOR

CURIA. In old European law. A court. The palace, household, or retinue of a sov ereign. 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 nobleman'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. Cow ell. In Roman law. A division of the Roman people, said to have been made by Romulus. They were divided into three tribes, and each tribe into ten curiw, making thirty curies 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, 31, 2. See DKCUBIO. —Curia admiralitatis. The court of admir alty.—Curia baronis, or baronum. In old English law. A court-baron. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 53.—Curia Christianitatis. The ecclesias tical court.—Curia comitatus. The county court, (q. v.) —Curia oursus aquae. 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 Gravesend bridge, etc. 2 Geo. II. c. 26.—Curia domini. In old English law. The lord's court, house, or hall, where all the tenants met at the time of keep ing court. Cowell.—Curia legitime affirma ta. A phrase used in old Scotch records to show that the court was opened in due and law ful manner.—Curia magna. In old English law. The great court; one of the ancient names of parliament.—Curia maj oris. In old English law. The mayor's court. Calth. 144.—Curia militum. A court so called, an ciently held at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. Cowell.—Curia palatii. The pal ace court. It was abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101.—Curia pedis pulverizati. In old English law. The court of piedpoudre or pie powders, (q. v.) 3 Bl. Comm. 32.—Curia pen ticiarum. A court held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the "Pendice" or "Pentice;" probably it was so called from be ing originally held under a pent-house, or open shed covered with boards. Blount.—Curia per sonse. In old records. A parsonage-house, or manse. Cowell.—Curia regis. The king's court. A term applied to the aula regis, the iancus, or communis bancus, and the iter or eyre, as being courts of the king, but especially to the aula regis, (which title see.) CURIA ADVISARI VULT. L. Lat. The court will advise; the court will consider. A phrase frequently found in the reports, signifying the resolution of the court to sus pend judgment in a cause, after the argu ment, until they have deliberated upon the question, as where there is a new or diffi cult point involved. It is commonly abbrevi ated to cur. adv. vult, or c. a. v. Curia caneellarise officina justitise. 2 Inst. 552. The court of chancery is the work shop of justice.

title was also applied to a variety of public officers in Roman administrative law. Sproule v. Davies, 69 App. Div. 502, 75 N. Y. Supp. 229. 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. Duncan v. Crook, 49 Mo. 117. —Curator ad hoc In the civil law. A guardian for this purpose; a special guardian. —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 benefit of creditors. Dig. 42, 7. In Scotch law. The term is applied to guardians for mi nors, lunatics, etc.—Curatores viarum. Sur veyors of the highways.' CURATORSHIP. The office of a cura tor. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q. v.J in this; that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the person; while the for mer is intended to protect, first, the person, and secondly, the property. 1 Lee. El. Dr. Civ. Rom. 241. CTJRATRIX. A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator; a female guardian. Cross' Curatrix v. Cross' Legatees, 4 Grat (Va.) 257. Curatus 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 y. Keena, 63 Conn. 329, 28 Atl. 522; Alford v. Baker, 53 Ind. 279; Treanor v. Houghton, 103 Cal. 53, 36 Pac. 1081. CURE OF SOULS. In ecclesiastical law. The ecclesiastical or spiritual charge of a parish, including the usual and regular du ties of a minister in charge. State v. Bray, 35 N. a 290. 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 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. CURFEW.