The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiscal \Fis"cal\, n.
The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exchequer. [Obs.]
--Bacon.A treasurer.
--H. Swinburne.A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.
The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
Wiktionary
n. a public prosecutor in Scotland
Wikipedia
A procurator fiscal (pl. procurators fiscal), sometimes called PF or fiscal, is a public prosecutor in Scotland (who, despite the title, has little to do with fiscal issues). They investigate all sudden and suspicious deaths in Scotland (similar to a coroner in other legal systems), conduct fatal accident inquiries (a form of inquest unique to the Scottish legal system) and handle criminal complaints against the police (administrative complaints are handled by the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland). They also receive reports from specialist reporting agencies such as Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
For the majority of crimes in Scotland, the procurators fiscal present cases for the prosecution in the Sheriff, District and Justice of the Peace Courts, and the case for the defence is presented either by the accused, a solicitor, or an advocate. The solicitor will work for a firm of solicitors, or in certain areas of Scotland could be a public defender working for the Public Defence Solicitors' Office.
The procurator fiscal has the discretion to not prosecute and pursue alternatives free from political interference, but is always subject to the directions of the Crown Office and the Lord Advocate.
Usage examples of "procurator fiscal".
He needed to talk to the Procurator Fiscal's office again, tell them what was happening.
Wife of the procurator fiscal in Cranesmuir, she had murdered her husband by dropping powdered cyanide into his food at a banquet.
Death was certainly suspicious, but this had to be decided officially by the gentleman from the Procurator Fiscal's office, the gentleman who now stood talking with Dr Curt, nodding his head gravely while Curt made hand gestures which would not have disgraced an excited Italian.
He had alerted his own chief constable, and the procurator fiscal, whose office, in Scotland, includes the duties of coroner.
At another timeeven he would probably have found that difficult but, giventhe involvement of the WAS, the Procurator Fiscal would,in any case, have been bending over backwards to hush upthe whole business.
She had begun building her fortune with her second husband, procurator fiscal of the district where they lived, forging his signature in order to divert money to her own use, and then murdering him.
They're holding on to my passport and they still want me to keep them informed of my whereabouts, in case the Procurator Fiscal decides to prosecute on the Rudd case.