Curtis
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The area about a building; a garden; a hut or farmer's house; a farmers house with the land enrolled with it. A village or a walled town containing a small number of houses. The residence of a nobleman; a hall or palace. A court; a tribunal of justice.
1 Washb. Real Prop. 120; Spelman; 3 Bl. Comm. 320.
The similarity of the derivative meaning of this word and of aula is quite noticeable, both coming to denote the court itself, from I I denoting the place where the court was held.