Glossary : curator
Definition 1
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.
2. 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. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 357 to 366. There
are also curators of insane persons Id. art. 31; and of vacant successions
and absent heirs. Id. art. 1105 to 1125.
3. The term curator is usually employed in the civil law, for that of guardian.
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