curative

/kyuratav/ Intended to cure (that is, to obviate the ordinary legal effects or consequences of) defects, errors, omissions or irregularities. The word is defined as relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure; a remedy

@ curative admissibility of evidence

The doctrine of "curative admissibility" allows evidence which is otherwise inadmissible to be presented because similar evidence has been introduced by the adverse party. People v. Wilbert, 15 Ill.App.3d 974, 305 N.E.2d 173, 179.

In some jurisdictions, an opponent may counter or answer evidence which has been admitted without objection though otherwise inadmissible to cure the effect of such evidence. This rule is not of universal application or acceptance

@ curative statute

A law, retrospective in effect, which is designed to remedy some legal defect in previous transactions. A form of retrospective legislation which reaches back into the past to operate upon past events, acts or transactions in order to correct errors and irregularities and to render valid and effective many attempted acts which would otherwise be ineffective for the purpose intended. As applied to conveyances they supply one or more ingredients of a legal act which the parties intended to perform but which they failed to accomplish completely or which they executed only imperfectly

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