Having the ability to be remedied or corrected. Correctable. 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, … [Read more...]

In Scotch law. Curtesy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court. Curiosa et eaptlosa interpretatio in lege reprobatur. A curious (over nice or subtle) and captious interpretation is reprobated in law. 1 Buist 6 … [Read more...]

A judge's instruction given to a jury in order to correct a previous error of instruction or a jury's misunderstanding. … [Read more...]

In old English law. A measure containing four bushels or half a quarter of corn. Cowell; Blount. … [Read more...]

(A) See conservator (B) persons, contracts. One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself. 2. There are curators ad bona, of property, who administer the estate of a minor, take care of his person, and intervene in all his … [Read more...]