Editing Curia (section)

==Other curiae==
The concept of the curia as a governing body, or the court where such a body met, carried on into medieval times, both as a secular institution, and in the church.

===Medieval curiae===
{{Main|Curia regis}}
In medieval times, a king's court was frequently known as the ''[[curia regis]]'', consisting of the king's chief magnates and councilors. In England, the ''curia regis'' gradually developed into [[Parliament of England|Parliament]]. In France, the ''curia regis'' or [[Conseil du Roi]] developed in the twelfth century, with the term gradually becoming applied to a judicial body, and falling out of use by the fourteenth century.

===Roman Catholic Church===
{{Main|Roman Curia}}
{{See also|Diocesan chancery}}
In the Roman Catholic Church, the administrative body of the [[Holy See]] is known as the ''[[Roman Curia]]''. It is through this Curia that the [[Roman Pontiff]] conducts the business of the Church as a whole.<ref name="Code of Canon Law, can. 360"/>

Among older [[Religious order (Catholic)|religious order]]s, the governing council of the [[Superior General]] or Regional Superior and his or her assistants is referred to their Curia.

===Modern usage===
[[Image:Official Emblem of the Court of Justice of the European Union (type 2).svg|thumb|right|100px|Emblem of the Court of Justice of the European Union]]
The [[Court of Justice of the European Union]] uses "CURIA" (in roman script) in its official emblem.

The term ''curia'' may refer to separate electoral colleges in a system of [[reserved political positions]] (reserved seats), e.g. during the [[Mandatory Palestine|British mandate of Palestine]] at the third election (1931) of the [[Assembly of Representatives (Mandate Palestine)|Asefat HaNivharim]] there were three curiae, for the [[Ashkenazi Jews]], the [[Sephardi Jews]] and for the [[Yemeni Jews]].<ref>Fannie Fern Andrews, ''The Holy Land under mandate'', Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company – The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1931, 2 vol. (ch. XIV – Building a Jewish corporate life, vol. II, 1–32)</ref><ref>Moshe Burstein, ''Self-government of the Jews in Palestine since 1900'', Tel Aviv, Hapoel Hatzair, 1934</ref><ref>ESCO Foundation for Palestine, Inc., ''Palestine. A study of Jewish, Arab and British policies'', New Haven, Yale University Press, 1947, 2 vol. (The growth and organization of the Jewish community, vol.II, 404–414)</ref><ref>[[Jacob C. Hurewitz]], ''The struggle for Palestine'', New York, Norton and Company, 1950 (ch. 3 – The political structure of the Yishuv, 38–50)</ref>

In the United States Supreme Court an interested third party to a case may file a brief as an [[amicus curiae]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/amicus_curiae|title=Amicus Curiae}}</ref>

Under the [[Constitution of Hungary|Fundamental Law]] adopted in 2011, [[Hungary]]'s supreme court is called the [[Curia of Hungary|Curia]].

The [[Federal Palace of Switzerland]], the seat of the [[Swiss Confederation]], bears the inscription ''Curia Confœderationis Helveticæ''.