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CURATOR (See also:Lat. for " one who takes care," curare, to take care of)  , in See also:Roman See also:law the " caretaker " or See also:guardian of a spend-See also:thrift (prodigus) or of a See also:person of unsound mind (furiosus), and, more particularly, one who takes See also:charge of the See also:estate of an adolescens, i.e. of a person sui See also:juris, above the See also:age of a pupillus, fourteen or twelve years, according to See also:sex, and below the full age of twenty-five . Such persons were known as " minors," i.e. minores viginti quinque annis . While the See also:tutor, the guardian of the pupillus, was said to be appointed for the care of the person, the See also:curator took charge of the See also:property . The See also:term survives in Scots law for the guardian of one in the second See also:stage of minority, i.e. below twenty-one, and above fourteen, if a male, and twelve, if a See also:female . Under the Roman See also:empire the See also:title of curator was given to several officials who were in charge of departments of public See also:administration, such as the curatores annonae, of the public supplies of See also:corn and oil, or the curatores regionum, who were responsible for See also:order in the fourteen regiones or districts into which the See also:city of See also:Rome was divided, and who protected the See also:citizen from exaction in the collection of taxes; the curatores aquarum had the charge of the aqueducts . Many of these curatdrships were instituted by See also:Augustus . In See also:modern usage " curator " is applied chiefly to the keeper of a museum, See also:art collection, public See also:gallery, &c., but in many See also:universities to an See also:official or member of a See also:board having a See also:general See also:control over the" university, or with the See also:power of electing to professorships . In the university of See also:Oxford " curators " are nominated to administer certain departments, such as the University See also:Chest .

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