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Affect is a verb, although very rarely it can be used as a noun. Effect can be a verb or a noun.
Effect (noun): a thing that has happened.
"Seeing live worms in his dinner has such an effect on Brian!"
Effect (verb): to bring about change.
"We will effect changes to the school uniform from next term."
Affect (verb): to produce an effect on.
"Rachael shaving her head didn't affect the way Gabriel felt about her."
Effect (noun): a thing that has happened.
"Seeing live worms in his dinner has such an effect on Brian!"
Effect (verb): to bring about change.
"We will effect changes to the school uniform from next term."
Affect (verb): to produce an effect on.
"Rachael shaving her head didn't affect the way Gabriel felt about her."
90% of the time you can use a better verb like "make"
"We will implement changes to the school uniform from next term."
"We will make changes to the school uniform from next term."
"We will change the school uniform from next term."
etc...
"We will implement changes to the school uniform from next term."
"We will make changes to the school uniform from next term."
"We will change the school uniform from next term."
etc...
is when you effect a change. And the only time I've seen it in use is in tenancy contracts, the first time I saw it I had to ring my dad and check it meant what I thought, and as he's a solicitor he thought I was weird for never having seen it used like that before.
So for me it's easy to remember as my dad thought I was an idiot ;)
So for me it's easy to remember as my dad thought I was an idiot ;)
Whereas curtiledge (sp?) is the area of land that can be reasonably said to be occupied by a building (i.e. house, driveway and garden). Curtillage (i think this is the correct spelling) is not necessarily legal ownership, and has a different meaning in planning law than elsewhere I think.

