curatorship

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

curatorship
    n 1: the position of curator

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Curatorship \Cu*ra"tor*ship\, n.
   The office of a curator.
   [1913 Webster]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

CURATORSHIP, offices, contracts, in the civil law. The power given by 
authority of law, to one or more persons, to administer the property of an 
individual who is unable to take care of his own estate and affairs, either 
on account of his absence without an authorized agent, or in consequence of 
his prodigality, or want of mind. Poth. Tr. des Personnes, t. 6, s. 5. As to 
the laws of Louisiana, which authorize a curatorship, vide Civ. Code, art. 
31, 50, et seq. 357, et seq.; 382, 1105, et seq. 
     2. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q.v.) in this, that the latter 
is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, 
secondly, of the person;  while the former is intended to protect, first, 
the person, and, secondly, the property. 1 Lecons Elem. du Droit Civ. Rom. 
241.