Curator

Lat. [from curare, to take care, which from cura, q. v.] One who is appointed to take care of any thing for another; one who is appointed to administer the estate of any person who is not legally competent to manage it himself; a guardian, Heinecc. EL Jur. Civ. lih.

1, tit. 23.

In a ^nend sense, the office of a curator is not distinmiishable from that of a procurator. /rf.§§ 265, 266. In the civil law. A species of guardian appointed for minors from puberty to the age of twenty-five.

Inst. 1. 23. pr.

Lunatics, spendthrifts, idiots, deaf and dumb and incurably sick persons, were also put under the charge of a curator.

Id. § 3, 4.

See Tutor. Bracton uses this term indifferently with cu Htos. Bract, fol.

28 a, b.

A person appointed to take care of the estate of an absentee.

Civ. Code of Louisiana, Art. 50.