CURIA, among the Romans, also denoted a portion or division of a tribe. In the time of Romulus, a tribe consisted of ten curiae, or a thousand men; each curia being one hundred. The first division of his people made by that legislator was into thirty curiae. But afterwards curia, or domus curialis, came to be used for the place where each curia held its assemblies. Hence curia passed to the senate-house; and hence also the moderns came to use the word curia for a place of justice, and the judges therein assembled.