CURIA

(Lat.) In Ancient Architecture, a court, council,or senate house. CURIES, Curia!. A subdivision of the Roman patr.- cian tribes, each of which were divided into ten cun(?. Three curies probably contained originally ten no (gentes) each. These houses were similar to the Scottish clans, in which, though the bond of union was supposed to be that of common bloo.l. yet in reality there was no consanguinity betwet o many of (he component families. [s. 323]