procuration
Example Sentences
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Wogan held out the Pope's procuration to the Chevalier, who took it and devoutly kissed the signature.
From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
In France an indorsement in blank merely operates as a procuration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Mr. Wogan thereupon read the procuration, for which he had ridden to Rome in haste so many months before, and pronounced the consent of the King his master to its terms.
From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Well, you can sign them; you have the procuration.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The merchants ordinarily pass a procuration, which it is necessary to renew once a year, to one of their clerks to carry their drafts and demand their payments, which no other person can do.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
