1. A seller’s right under the UCC to correct a nonconforming delivery of goods, usu. within the contract period. UCC § 2-508. [Cases: Sales 166(1). C.J.S. Sales §§ 176, 182.]
2. Maritime law. Restoration to health after disease or injury; medical attention and nursing care during a period of convalescence. See MAINTENANCE AND CURE; MAXIMUM CURE. — curative, adj.
cure, vb. To remove legal defects or correct legal errors. • For example, curing title involves removing defects from title to unmarketable land so that title becomes marketable.