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  • PROCURACY
    The writing or instrument which authorizes a procurator to act Cowell; Termes de la Ley.
  • PROCURATOR DEL COMUN
    Sp. In Spanish law, an officer appointed to make Inquiry, put a petitioner in possession of land prayed for, and execute the orders of the executive in that behalf. See Lecompte v. U. S.t 11 How. 115^ 126, 13 L. Ed. 627.
  • PROCURARE
    Lat To take care of another's affairs for him, or in his behalf; to manage; to take care of or superintend.
  • PROCURATIO
    Lat Management of another's affairs by his direction and In his behalf; -procuration; agency. Procuratio est exhibitio sumptuum necessariornm facta prselatis, qui dloB" eeses peragrando,. ecclesias subjectas visitant. Dav. Ir. K. B. L Procuration la the providing necessaries for the bishops,, who, in traveling through their dioceses, visit the churches More...
  • PROCURATION
    Agency; proxy; the act of constituting another one's attorney in fact; action under a power of attorney or other constitution of agency. Indorsing a bill or note "by procuration" (or per proc) Is doing It as proxy for another or by his authority. -Procuration fee, (or money.) In English law. More...
  • PROCURATIONS
    In ecclesiastical law. Certain sums of money which parish priests pay yearly to the bishops or archdeacons rations visitationis. Dig. 3, 39, 25; Ayl. Par. 429.
  • PROCURATOR
    In tbe civil law. A proctor; a person who acts for another by virtue of a procuration. Dig. 3, 3, 1. In old English law. An agent or attorney ; a bailiff or servant A proxy of a lord in parliament la eeelesiastieal law. One who collected the fruits of More...
  • PROCURATORES ECCLESIAE PAROCHIALISM
    The old name for church-wardens. Paroch. Antiq. 562.
  • PROOURATORIUM
    In old English law. The procuratory or Instrument by which any person or community constituted or delegated their procurator or proctors to represent them in any judicial court or cause. Cowell.
  • PROCURATORY OF RESIGNATION
    In Scotch law. A form of proceeding by which a vassal authorizes the feu to be returned to his superior. Bell. It is analogous to the surrender of copyholds In England.
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