What is CURATIVE? Definition of CURATIVE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Intended to cure (that is, to obviate the ordinary legal effects or consequences of) defects, errors, omissions or irregularities. Meigs v. Roberts, 162 N.Y. 371, 56 N.E. 838, 76 Am.St. Rep. 322.
The word is defined as relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure; a remedy. State v. Stoddard, 215 Iowa, 534, 245 N.W. 273, 275, 86 A.L.R. 616.
Applied particularly to statutes, a "curative act" being a retrospective law passed in order to validate legal proceedings, the acts of public officers, or private deeds or contracts, which would otherwise be void for defects or irregularities or for want of conformity to existing legal requirements. Meigs v. Roberts, 162 N.Y. 371, 56 N.E. 838, 76 Am.St.Rep. 322; one intended to give legal effect to some past act or transaction which is ineffective because of neglect to comply with some requirement of law. Anderson v. Lehmkuhl, 119 Neb. 451, 229 N.W. 773, 777;
Carle v. Gehl, 193 Ark. 1061, 104 S.W.2d 445, 447; also one enacted to cure past irregularities not jurisdictional. Dunkum v. Maceck Bldg. Corporation, 256 N.Y. 275, 176 N.E. 392, 396. Applied to evidence curative admissibility is the doctrine that an opponent may reply with similar evidence whenever it is needed for removing an unfair prejudice which might otherwise have ensued. Biener v. St. Louis Public Service Co., Mo.App., 160 S.W.2d 780, 786.
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