procuration

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Well, you can sign them; you have the procuration.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Senate received the reports, and the consul then introduced the question of procuration.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

At present his little luxuries were knocked off, and in the future he foresaw a difficulty in the procuration of even necessaries.

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford

In face of these superlative risks the difficulty of procuring men was accentuated a thousand-fold, and with it both the nature and the degree of the coercive force necessary to be exercised for their procuration.

From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert)

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