Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier
  CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

CURATE, eccl. law. One who represents the incumbent of a church, person, or
vicar, and takes care of the church, and performs divine service in his stead. 

CURATOR, 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. 
   There are curators ad bona, of property, who administer the estate of a
minor, take care of his person, and intervene in all his contracts; curators ad
litem, of suits, who assist the minor in courts of justice, and act as curator
ad bona in cases where the interests of the curator are opposed to the interests
of the minor.... There are also curators of insane persons ... and of vacant
successions and absent heirs....
   The term curator is usually employed in the civil law, for that of guardian. 

CURATORSHIP, offices, contracts, in the civil law. The power given by authority
of law, to one or more persons, to administer the property of an individual who
is unable to take care of his own estate and affairs, either on account of his
absence without an authorized agent, or in consequence of his prodigality, or
want of mind....
   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 former is intended to protect, first, the person, and,
secondly, the property....

CURATRIX. A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator.

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