KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PRODUCTION

PROCURATOR

Initiation of all criminal proceedings. In the exercise of his office (which appears to include the apprehension of offenders) he is entitled to call to his assistance the public force, (posse comitatusf) and the officers of police are auxiliary to him. PROCUREUR GENERAL, or IM PERIAL.. In French law. An officer of the imperial court, who either personally or by his deputy prosecutes every one who is ac cused of a crime according to the forms of French law. His functions appear to be con fined to preparing the case for trial at the assizes, assisting in that trial, demanding the sentence in case of a conviction, and being present at the delivery of the sentence. He has a general superintendence over the of ficers of police and of the juges d'instruction, and he requires from the procureur du roi a general report once in every three months. Brown. A term said by Tomlins to be frequently applied in the ancient books to the barons of the realm, particularly as constituting a council or ad ministration or government. It is probably a corruption of "probi homines." PRODIGUS. Lat. In Roman law. A prodigal; a spendthrift; a person whose ex travagant habits manifested an inability to administer his own affairs, and for whom a guardian might therefore be appointed. PRODITION. Treason; treachery. PRODITOR. A traitor. PRODITORIE. Treasonably. This Is a technical word formerly used in~ indict ments for treason, when, they were written in Latin. Tomlins. PRODUCE. To bring forward; to show or exhibit; to bring into view or notice; as, to produce books or writings at a trial in obedience to a sudpoena duces tecum. PRODUCE BROKER. A person whose occupation it is to buy or sell agricultural or farm products. 14 U. S. St. at Large, 117; U. S. v. Simons, 1 Abb. (U. S.) 470, Fed. Cas. No. 16,291. PRODUCENT. The party calling a wit ness under the old system of the English ec clesiastical courts. PRODUCTIO SECTJE. In old English law. Production of suit; the production by a plaintiff of his secta or witnesses to prove the allegations of his count See 3 Bl. Comm. 295. PRODUCTION. In political economy. The creation of objects which constitute wealth. The requisites of production are PRODES HOMINES.

is 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 become his own property. See Ersk. Inst. 3, 5, 2.— Procurator litis. In the civil law. One who by command of another institutes and car ries on for him a suit. Vicat, Voc. Jur.— Procurator negotioruxn. In the civil law. An attorney in fact; a manager of business affairs for another person.— Procurator pro vinciae. In Roman law. A provincial officer who managed the affairs of the revenue, and had a judicial power in matters that concerned the revenue. Adams, Rom. Ant. 178. PROCURATORES ECCLESIiE PARO CHIALIS. The old name for church-ward ens. 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 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 re turned to his superior. Bell. It is anal ogous to the surrender of copyholds in Eng land. PROCURATRIX. In old English law. A female agent or attorney in fact Fleta, lib. 3, c. 4, § 4. PROCURE. In criminal law, and in analogous uses elsewhere, to "procure" is to initiate a proceeding to cause a thing to be done; to instigate; to contrive, bring about, effect, or cause. See U. S. v. Wilson, 28 Fed. Cas. 710; Gore v. Lloyd, 12 Mees. & W. 480; Marcus v. Bernstein, 117 N. C. 31, 23 S. E. 38; Rosenbarger v. State, 154 Ind. 425, 56 N. E. 914; Long v. State, 23 Neb. 33, 36 N. W. 310. PROCURER. A pimp; one that procures the seduction or prostitution of girls. 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." Procureurs ad lites were 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 of avou6s established in their place. Mozley A Whitley. PROCUREUR DU ROI, in French law, is a public prosecutor, with whom rests the