Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

comitia curiata

An assembly of (originally) patricians whose chief function was to authorize private acts of citizens, such as declaring wills and adoptions. ( The comitia curiata engaged in little legislative activity."[I]n Rome the patrician will, recorded before the Comitia Curiata, was a variety of adoption but disappeared gradually, while the plebeian will, which proved the permanent form, was made by a formal sale, or mancipatio." John Henry Wigmore, Problems of Law 46-47 (1920).