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Procure

Procure, means to obtain, or get by care; effort or the use of special means; to procure evidence; to bring about especially by unscrupulous and indirect means; to procure secret documents; to obtain (women or girls) for the purpose of prostitution; to act as a procurer or pimp, Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Edn., p. 1147.Means to take care of; to get possession of; obtain; to get and make available for promiscuous perusal intercourse; to bring about; achieve; to procure women, Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.The word 'procure' has been defined in the Century Dictionary to mean 'to obtain, as by request, loan, effort, labour, or purchase; get; gain; come into possession of'. It has been defined in the Oxford English Dictionary to mean 'to gain, win, get possession of, acquire'. This is the correct meaning of the word as used in sub-s. (5) of s. 123 of the Act; Balwan Singh v. Prakash Chand, AIR 1976 SC 1187 (1193): (1976) 3 SCR 335: (1976) 2 SC...

Procuration

Procuration, an agency, the administration of the business of another; also moneys which parish priests pay yearly to the bishop or archdeacon, ratione visitationis; these are also called proxies, and it is said that there are three sorts--ratione visitationis, consuetudinis, et pactiHardr. 180Bills of Exchange may be drawn, accepted, or endorsed by procuration, i.e., by an agent who has an authority for such a purpose, and 'a signature by procuration operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature if the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limits of his authority.'--Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 25. The words 'per pro.' Or 'p.p.' (by procuration) usually follow the signature of an agent, and by s. 26 of the Bills of Exchange Act, a person signing a bill and adding words indicating that he signs in a representative capacity is not personally liable on the bill....

procuration

procuration 1 in the civil law of Louisiana : power of attorney 2 : procurement ...

procurement

procurement 1 : the act of procuring 2 : the purchasing, leasing, renting, or selling of materials, services, equipment, or construction ...

Person entitled to sell or procure the sale

Person entitled to sell or procure the sale, the expression 'person entitled to sell, or procure the sale' in s. 12(2) is merely descriptive of the person who is accountable under the said provision. The expression does not restrict the operation of the Act to the persons who have not yet sold the goods. The persons who have exported the goods to a foreign buyer are also excluded under s. 12(2). This conclusion is reinforced if clauses (a) and (b) of s. 12(2) are taken into account. It is also in consonance with the avowed object of s. 12 which is to ensure that the nation does not lose foreign exchange, M.G. Wagh v. Jay Engineering Works Ltd., AIR 1987 SC 670: (1987) 1 SCC 542: (1987) 1 SCR 798 [FERA, 1947, s. 12 (2)]...

Procuration of women

Procuration of women, the providing of women for the purposes of illicit intercourse. If the woman be under twenty-one and not a common prostitute, the offence is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for not more than two years under the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amend-ment Act, 1912. Conspiring to procure is a misdemeanour at Common Law; see Reg. v. Mears, (1851) 20 LJMC 59....

Procurator fiscal

Procurator fiscal. Each of the inferior (Sheriff's) Courts in Scotland has its Procurator Fiscal, who acts, with deputies if necessary, as Public Prosecutor; and to make inquiry in to suspected offences in his area; under guidance of Crown Office Regulations. There are no coroners in Scotland....

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