The Inclosed space of ground aud buildings Immediately surround-lug a dwelling-house
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The estate to which by com-xuon law a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands or tenements of whicli she was seised in possession iu fee-simple or in tail during her coverture, provided they have bad lawful issue born alive which might have been capable of inheriting the estate. It is a freehold estate for the term of his natural life. 1 washb. Real Prop. 127; 2 Bl. Comm. 126; Co. Litt. 3Oa; Dozier v. Toalsou, 180 Mo. 546, 79 S. W. 420. 103 Am. St. Rep. 580; Valentine v. Hutchlnsou, 43 Misc. Rep. 314, 88 N. Y. Supp. S62; Redus v. Ilaydeu. 43 Miss. 614; Billings v. Baker. 28 Barb. (N. Y.) 343; Templeton v. Twitty. 88 Teuu. 595, 14 S. W. 435; Jackson v. Johu
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Clerks in the chancery of-flce, whose duties consisted in drawing up those writs which were of course, de cures, whence their name. They were abolished by St. 5 & 6 wm. IV. c. 82. Spence, Eq. Jur. 238 ; 4 lnst. 82
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In old records. A ridge. Cur-sones terra, ridges of land. Cowell
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An officer of the court of exchequer, who is a pointed by pat-ent under the grent seal to be one of the barons of the exchequer. The ofiice was abol-ished by St. 19 & 20 VicL c. 86
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Ruuning; now in transit; whatever is at present in course of passage; as “the current month.” when applied to money, it means “lawful;” current money is equivalent to lawful money, wharton v. Morris, 1 Dull. 124, 1 L. Ed. 65
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The year; of the course of a year; the set of studies for a particular period, appointed by a university
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In old English law. A ineas-ure containing four bushels or half a quarter of corn. Cowell; Blount
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Colued money aud such bank-notes or other paper money as are au-thorissed by lnw aud do in fact circulate from imiid to hand as the medium of exchange. Griswold v. Hepburn, 2 Duv. (Ky.) 33; Leonard v. State, 115 Aia. 80, 22 South. 564; insurance Co. v. Keiron, 27 HI. 505; Insur-ance Co. v. Kupfer, 2S 111. 332, 81 Am. Dec. 284; Lackey v. Miller, 61 N. C. 20
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Tho 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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In Scotch law. Curtesy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court
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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 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 snit and service at the lord’s court A manse. Cow-eiL
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In ecclesiastical law. The ecclesiastical or spiritual charge of a parish, including the usual and regular duties of a miuister in charge. State v. Bray, 35 N. Q 290
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An institution supposed to have been introduced into England hy 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 thelr fires, and retire to rest, and all companies to disperse. The word is probably derived from the French couxre feu, to cover the fire
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A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator; a female guardian. Cross’ Curatrix v. Cross’ Legatees, 4 Grat (Va.) 257
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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; Alford v. Baker, 53 Ind. 279; Treanor v. Houghton, 103 Gal. 53, 36 Pac. 1081
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In tbe civU law. A person 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 certaiu age, a lunatic, a spendthrift, or other person not regarded by the law us competent to administer it for himself. The
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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 for-mer is Intended to protect, first, the person, and secondly, the property. 1 Lec. EL Dr. Civ. Rom. 24L
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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 guard-ian. Calvin
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Intended to cure (that is. to obviate the ordinary legal effects or con-sequences of) defects, errors, omissions, or irregularities. Applied particularly to stat-utes, a “curative act” being a retrospective law passed in order to validate legal pro-ceedlngs, the acts of publlc officers, or private deeds or contracts, which w’ould otherwise be void for defects or irregularities or for want of conformity to existing legal requlre-ments. Meigs v. Roberts, 162 N. Y. 371, 56 N. E. 838, 76 Am. St. Rep. 322
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In ecclesiastical law. Prop-erly, an incumbent who has the cure of souls, but uow generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or vicar in his cure. An officiating temporary minister iu the Epglish church, who represents the prop-er incumbent; being regularly employed ei-ther to serve in hls absence or as hls as-sistant, as the case may be. 1 Bl. Comm. 393 ; 3 Steph. Comm. 88; Brande
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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. Duverger
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