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Procuratorial

Of or pertaining to a procurator or proctor made by a proctor

Ecdicus

Ecdicus [fr. Gk., from and justice], an attorney or proctor of a corporation; a recorder, Civil Law. The attorney, proctor, or advocate of organisation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

Solicitor

Court' was the title given by the (English) Judicature Act, 1843, s. 87, to all attorneys, solicitors, and proctors, and continued by (English) Solicitors Act 1932, s. 81. Prior to that Act, 'attorneys' conducted business in the

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Responsalis ad lucrandum vel petendum

ad lucrandum vel petendum, he who appears and answers for another in court at a day assigned; a proctor, attorney, or deputy, 1 Reeves, 169.

Spinning-house

in which the Vice-Chancellor was unsuccessfully sued by a Cambridge milliner committed by him after apprehension by a proctor, and Ex parte Hopkins, (1891) 61 LJQB 240, where the conviction of a woman upon a charge of

Ship's agent

per cent. of any such money distributed among the officers and crew. He may not be a solicitor, proctor, attorney, or employed by the Crown, and is subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the High Court

Intervention

the recovery of land, see ibid., r. 25. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 181, the king's proctor, or any other person, may intervene in any suit for the dissolution of marriage, on the ground that

Procuratorium

Procuratorium, the instrument by which any person or community constituted or delegated their proctor to represent them in any court or cause.

Porrecting

Porrecting, producing for examination or taxation, as porrecting a bill of costs, by a proctor.

Nullity of marriage

Acts of 1860 and 1866, ss. 7 and 3 respectively, with reference to the intervention of the king's proctor, and see now Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937, and DIVORCE. See INTERVENTION, and Browne and Latey, Divorce.

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