CURIA, among the Romans, also denoted a portion, or division of a tribe. In the time of Romulus, a tribe consisted of ten curiæ, or a thousand men; each curia being one hundred: that legislator made the first division of his people into thirty curiæ. Afterwards, curia, or domus curialis, became used for the place where each curia held its assemblies. Hence, also, curia passed to the senate-house; and it is from hence the moderns come to use the word curia, court, for a place of justice, and for the judges, &c. there assembled.