Definition of Procuration

1. n. The act of procuring; procurement.

Definition of Procuration

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Procuration

proctoscope
proctoscopes
proctoscopies
proctoscopy
proctosigmoidoscopies
proctosigmoidoscopy
proctotomies
proctotomy
proctour
procumbent
procurable
procuracy
procural
procurals
procurance
procuration (current term)
procurations
procurator
procurator fiscal
procuratorate
procuratorates
procuratorial
procurators
procuratorship
procuratorships
procuratory
procuratour
procured
procurement

Literary usage of Procuration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of German Civil Law by Ernest Joseph Schuster (1907)
"The declaration of intention, by which a power of procuration is conferred, ... The power of procuration enables the person on whom it confers authority to ..."

2. A Handbook of Bankers' Law by Henry Robertson, W. D. Thorburn (1881)
"procuration.—A procuration to sign bills and cheques may be constituted by writing; or it may be implied from a course of dealing between the principal and ..."

3. The Law Lexicon, Or Dictionary of Jurisprudence: Explaining All the by John Jane Smith Wharton (1848)
"procuration, money which parish priests pay yearly to the bishop or archdeacon ... Bills of exchange may be drawn, accepted, or endorsed by procuration, ie, ..."

4. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1826)
"And therefore every benefice with cure is subject to procuration or prosy. But if there be a parsonage, and also a vicarage endowed, there shall be one ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"procuration. Mandate is a consensual contract by which one of the parties ... Mandate has also the паше of procuration; but the word "mandate" is more ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-notes, Bank-notes by Robert Thomson, John Dove Wilson (1865)
"In another case (/), the point was raised but not decided, it being held that the objection to summary diligence on a bill signed by • procuration was ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"A signature by procuration operates as notice of a limited procuration, authority in the agent, and the principal is only bound if the agent was acting ..."

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