Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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PROCUREUR

PROCURARE

used in Scotch law to denote that a person is acting under a procuration (power of attor ney) with reference to a thing which has be come his own property. See Ersk. Inst. 3. 5,2. PROCURATOR LITIS. In the civil law. One who by command of another institutes and carries on for him a suit. Yicat, Voc. Jur. PROCURATOR NEGOTIORUM. In the civil law. An attorney in fact; a man ager of business affairs for another person. PROCURATOR PROVINCE. In Roman law. A provincial officer who man aged the affairs of the revenue, and had a ju dicial power in matters that concerned the revenue. Adams, Rom. Ant. 178. PROCURATORES ECCLESIiE PAROCHIALIS. The old name for church wardens. Paroch. Antiq. 562. PROCURATORIUM. In old English law. The procuratory or instrument by which any person or community constituted or delegated their procurator or proctors 10 represent them in any judicial court or cause. Cowell. PROCURATORY OF RESIGNA TION. In Scotch law. A iorm of proceed ing by which a vassal authorizes the feu to be returned to his supeiior. Bell. It is anal ogous to the surrender of copyholds in Eng land. PROCURATRIX. In old English lav. A female agent or attorney in fact. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 4, § 4. PROCURER. A pimp; one that procures the seduction or prostitution of gills. They are punishable by statute in England and America. PROCUREUR. In French law. An at torney; one who has received a commission from another to act on his behalf. There were in France two classes of procureurs: Procureurs ad negotia, appointed by an in dividual to act for him in the administration of his affairs; persons invested with a power of attorney; corresponding to "attorneys in fact." Piocureurs ad litesvrere persons ap pointed and authorized to act for a party in a court of justice. These corresponded to at torneys at law, (now called, in England, "so licitors of the supreme court.") The order of procureurs was abolished in 1791, and that

PROCTJRARE. Lat. To take care of another's affairs for him, or in his behalf; to manage; to take caie of or superintend. PROCURATIO. Lat. Management of another's affairs by his direction and in his behalf; procuration; agency. Procuratio est exhibitio sumptuum necessariorum facta prselatis, qui dice ceses peragrando, ecclesias subjectas visitant. Dav. Ir. K. B. 1. Procuration is the providing necessaries for the bishops, who, in traveling through their dioceses, visit the churches subject to them. 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 a bill or note "by procuration" (or per proc.) is doing it as proxy for another or by his au thority. PROCURATION FEE, (or MONEY.) In English law. Brokerage or commission allowed to scriveners and solicitors for ob taining loans of money. 4 Bl. Comm. 157. Procurationem adversus nulla est prsescriptio. Dav. Ir. K. B. 6*. There is no prescription against procuration. PROCURATIONS. In ecclesiastical law. Certain sums of money which parish priests pay yearly to the bishops or archdeacons ratione visitationis. Dig. 8, 39, 25; Ayl. Par. 429. PROCURATOR. In the 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 attor ney; a bailiff or servant. A proxy of a lord in parliament. In ecclesiastical law. One who col lected the fruits of a benefice for another. An advocate of a religious house, who was to solicit the interest and plead the causes of the society. A proxy or representative of a parish church. PROCURATOR FISCAL. In Scotch law, this is the title of the public prosecutor for each district, who institutes the prelimi nary inquiry into crime within his district. The office is analogous, in some respects, to that of "prosecuting attorney," "district attorney," or "state's attorney" in America. PROCURATOR IN REM SUAM. Proctor (attorney) in his own affair, or with reference to his own property. This term is

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