What does "procuration" mean?

Procuration: The management of another's affairs.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
  2. 3.(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.

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