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Quotation dates: 1491-1585, 1665-1672
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Curatory, -orie, n. [L. cūrātōria. Cf. Curatry.] The office of a curator; curatorship. 1491 Acts Lords of Council 187/1.
For the wrangwis withhaldin fra … Patrik of thir lettrez of reuersion & curatory vnder writtin 1496 Ib. II. 11.
The owregevin of the sade office of curatory of the sade James 1511 Reg. Privy S. I. 355/1.
Thomas … was put under curatory of befor, and now James Galbraith quhilk was his curatour is decesit 1559 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 184.
He is in minoritie and less aige and within curatorie, and na curatouris callit in the actioun 1585 Acts III. 396/1.
That the nearest agnettis and kinsmen of naturall foulis, ideottis, and furious salbe … ressauit … to thair tutorie and curatorie 1665 Decis. Lords G. 90.
The suspender stands cautioner for him in the act of curatory1672 Acts Chas. II c, 2 in Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1424–1707 (1908) 129.
All who shall procure giftes of tutory or curatory … without citation or consent of the saids neirest of kin
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