Curate
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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.