The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procuration \Proc`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. procuratio: cf. F. procuration. See Procure.]
The act of procuring; procurement.
The management of another's affairs.
The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
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(Ch. of Eng.) A sum of money paid formerly 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.
Procuration money (Law), money paid for procuring a loan.
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
n. 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.
Wikipedia
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 (per procurationem), or shortly per pro., or simply p.p.
Usage examples of "procuration".
This being regularly attested by a notary, and a procuration affixed, he directed me to send it, with a letter of his writing, to a merchant of his acquaintance at the place.
After which I caused a procuration to be drawn, empowering him to be the receiver of the annual profits of my plantation: and appointing my partner to account with him, and make the returns, by the usual fleets, to him in my name.
Charles Wogan, who comes from Rome post-haste with the Pope's procuration for the marriage.
Wogan thereupon read the procuration, for which he had ridden to Rome in haste so many months before, and pronounced the consent of the King his master to its terms.
He is seduced and initiated into the art of living vicariously, by procuration or by pretense.
It may have been coincidence that these gentlemen so very often had the misfortune to appear shortly afterwards before the magistrate on charges of fraud, blackmail or attempted procuration, but it is a fact that Miss Climpson’s office boasted a private telephone line to Scotland Yard, and that few of her ladies were quite so unprotected as they appeared.