PROCURATION (

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