Scotch law. This imports that one is acting as attorney as to his own property. When an assignment of a thing is made, as a debt, and a procuration or power of attorney is given to the assignee to receive the same, he is in such case procurator in rein suam. … [Read more...]
PROCLAIM
To promulgate; to announce ; to publish, by governmental authority, intelligence of public acts or transactions or other matters Important to be known by the people. … [Read more...]
PROCURATORES ECCLESIAE PAROCHIALISM
The old name for church-wardens. Paroch. Antiq. 562. … [Read more...]
PROCLAMATION
(A) evidence. The act of causing some state matters to be published or made generally known. A written or printed document in which are contained such matters, issued by proper authority; as the president's proclamation, the governor's, the mayor's proclamation. The word proclamation is also used to express the public nomination made of any one to a high office; as, such a … [Read more...]
PROCURATORIUM
The proxy or instrument by which a proctor is constituted and appointed. … [Read more...]