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Curate

Curate [fr. Curator, Lat.], is a term properly applied to one who has the cure of souls, namely, the incumbent of a parish. The incumbent may have to assist him an 'assistant' or 'stipendiary' curate, often called 'curate' simply. A curate in this sense is an officiating temporary minister, regularly employed by the spiritual rector or vicar either to serve in his absence or as his assistant. All curates serve under a licence from the bishop of the diocese, revocable at his discretion, with an appeal against the revocation of the licence to the archbishop only [(English) Pluralities Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 106), s. 98; Poole v. Bishop of London, (1861) 7 Jur. N. S. 347]; and the law, on the other hand, has made several provisions for their proper maintenace, Pluralities Act, 1838, ss. 75-103; (English) Pluralities Act, 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 54), ss. 8, 10. See PERPETUAL CURATE....


Curator

Curator, a protector of property. His duty was to see that the person under his care did not waste his goods-Civil Law, Sand. Just. As to an interim curator for a convict's property, see Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), s. 21, and see ADMINISTRATOR. This Act is not affected by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, see s. 7 (3), ibid....


curator

curator [Latin, guardian, from curare to take care of] in the civil law of Louisiana : a person appointed by a court to care for the property of an absent person or to care for the person or property of someone mentally incapable of doing so compare committee, conservator, guardian, interdict, tutor cu·ra·tor·ship n ...


de minimis non curat lex

de minimis non curat lex [New Latin, the law does not concern itself with trifles] : the principle that the law is not concerned with insignificant or minor matters ...


Curator bonis

Curator bonis, a person appointed by the Court of Session to manage and preserve property until the owner, e.g., an infant, is in a position to act for himself, Bell's Dict....


De minimis non curat lex

De minimis non curat lex. Cro. Eliz. 353.-(The law cares not about very trifling mattes.). Therefore the courts will not, as a rule, take notice of the fraction of a day (see that title); or grant a new trial on the ground of a verdict being against evidence, if the damages were less than 20l, See Broom's Max....


Perpetual curate

Perpetual curate, a minister in holy orders, who is charged with the permanent care of a parochial church, which, although an appropriation, has no endowed vicar. He is entitled to emolument for his services.By the Church Building Act, 1831, churches or chapels built and endowed by particular individuals shall have districts assigned to them, and be deemed perpetual curacies, and the right of nomination thereto shall be vested in the person so building and endowing....


Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...


Restitutio in integrum

Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with respect to one another, which they occupied before the contract was made, or the transaction took place. The restitutio here spoken of is founded on the edict. If the contract or transaction is such as not to be valid, according to the jus civile this restitutio is not needed, and it only applies to cases of contracts and transactions, which are not in their nature or form invalid. In order to entitle a person to the restitutio, he must have sustained some injury capable of being estimated, in consequence of the contract or transaction, and not through any fault of his own, except in the case of one who is minor xxv. Annorum, who was protected by the restitutio against the consequences of his own carelessness.The following are the chief cases in which a restitutio might be decreed:-The case of vis et metus. When a man had acted under the influence of force or...


Uniformity, Act of

Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History).After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval by the two Convocations, and stating that 'nothing more conduceth to the peace of this nation, nor to the honour of our religion and the propagation thereof, than an universal agreement in the public worship of Almighty God.' The Act directs that:All and singular ministers in any cathedral, collegiate or parish church or chapel or other place of public worship within this realm of England, d...


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