VII.   Law

Curator is the term used to define the fourth most potentially powerful level and source of Official Power within any valid system of law. The power and authority of the Office of Curator is called Imperium.

The word Curator comes from Latin curator meaning “manager, overseer, guardian, public trustee, senior medical officer”. It originates as the formal title of the permanent second in command of an occupied province under Roman law since the capture of Sicily in 241 BCE.

The word Curator is equivalent to the words, ranks and positions of Treasurer, Chancellor, Minister, Attorney General, Public Trustee, Public Guardian, Commissioner, Sheriff, Warden, Conservator, General Executor, Plenipotentiary, Prothonotary, Supreme Court Judge, Registrar General or Surgeon General.

A Curator is usually a public official appointed by a Rector for a predetermined period of time which at its expiry results in the termination of their commission.

When a Curator is also a Public Trustee, being effectively the Public Executor, they are normally granted as a private "Crown Entity" the power of Public Guardian of the Person and Estate over all trusts and estates in intestate to manage probate where no valid will exists and no executor is nominated as well as any minors, incompetents or lunatics associated with the estate or trust.

In Roman Law, when a Curator is also a Commissioner of a Municipality (Local Government Administrative Division) as a "Statutory Authority" ultimately deriving its power from the Privy Council, they are normally granted the power of General Guardian of the Person over all wards, being all residents of the ward.

In Roman Law, when a Curator is also a Plenipotentiary of a Diocese (Ecclesiastical Division corresponding to District), they are normally granted as a "Gardianus ecclesia" being an Ecclesiastical Church warden the power of Ecclesiastical Guardian of the Person over all souls of a settlement.