PROCURATION

Procuration

Procuration is the action of taking care of, hence management, stewardship, agency. The word is applied to the authority or power delegated to a procurator, or agent, as well as to the exercise of such authority expressed frequently by procuration, or shortly per pro., or simply p.p.

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procuration

Noun

  1. The act of procuring; procurement.
  2. The management of another's affairs.
  3. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
  4. A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.


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