Curate
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
One who represents the Incumbent of a church, parson, or vicar, and takes care of the church, and performs divine services in his stead. An officiating temporary minister in the English church, who represents the proper incumbent. Burn, Ecc. Law; 1 Bl. Comm. 393. CURATIO (Lat.)
In 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 guardian. Calv. Lex.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
One who represents the incumbent of a church, parson or vicar, and takes care of the church and performs divine services in his stead. An officiating temporary minister in the English church who represents the proper incumbent. Burn, Eccl. Law; 1 Bla. Com. 393. See Cure of Souls. CURATIO (Lat). In 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 guardian. Calviniis, Lex.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In ecclesiastical law. Properly, an incumbent who has the cure of seals, but now generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or vicar in his cure. An officiating temporary minister in the English church, who represents the proper incumbent; being regularly employed either to serve in hls absence or as his assistant, as the case may be. 1 Bl. Comm. 393 ; 3 Steph. Comm. 88; Brande.
— Perpetual curacy. The office of & curate in a parish where there is no spiritual rector or vicar, but where a clerk (curate) is appointed to officiate there hr the impropriator. 2 Burn, Ecc. Law, 55. The church or benefice filled by a curate under these circumstances is also so called.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In ecclesiastical law. Properly an incumbent who has the cure of sovils, but now generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or vicar in his cure.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
v. Rector.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[from cura, q. v.] In ecclesiastical law. Properly, an incumbent who has the cure of souls, but now generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or yicar in his cure. Brande.-^^Kn officiating temporary minister in the Enghsh church, who represents the proper incumbent; being regularly employed either to serve in his absence or as his assistant, as the case may be. 1 Bl. Com. 393. 3 Steph. Com. 88. It is the lowest degree in the church. Id.