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PROCURATION (See also:Lat. procurare, to take care of) , the See also:action of taking care of, hence management, stewardship, agency. The word is applied to the authority or See also:power delegated to a See also:procurator, or See also:agent, as well as to the exercise of such authority expressed frequently " by procuration " (per procurationem), or shortly per See also:pro., or simply p.p. In ecclesiastical See also:law, procuration is the providing necessaries for bishops and See also:arch-deacons during their visitations of parochial churches in their dioceses. Procuration at first took the See also:form of See also:meat, drink, provender, and other See also:accommodation, but it was gradually compounded for a certain sum of See also:money. Procuration is merely an ecclesiastical due, and is suable only in a spiritual See also:court. In those dioceses where the See also:bishop's estates have vested in the ecclesiastical commissioners procurations are payable to the commissioners who, however, have abandoned their collection (See also:Phillimore, Ecc. Law, 2nd ed., 1895, pp. 1051, Io6o). Procuration is also used specifically for the negotiation of a See also:loan by an agent for his client, whether by See also:mortgage or otherwise, and the sum of money or See also:commission paid for negotiating it is frequently termed procuration See also:fee. The See also:English criminal law makes the ,See also:provision or attempted provision of any girl or woman under twenty-one years of See also:age for the purpose of illicit intercourse an offence, known as procuration.

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