Proctor

One appointed to maiiage the affairs of another or represent him in judgment. The authority was in writing under the hand of the principal and was called a proxy. One who is employed to manage for another proceedings in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. A proctor, strictly speaking, conducts the proceeding out of court, as an English solicitor does in common-law courts; while the advocate conducts those in court. But in this country the distinction is not observed. A proctor is properly appointed in writing, but not necessarily so. Until final decree, he has entire control of the cause; but after decree he has no power except to enforce it.

See Bened. Adm. § 334; W. Rob. 335.

The fees of proctors are fixed by R. S. §§ 823- 829; but fees not in the statute may be allowed in special cases; The Sarah E. Kennedy, 25 Fed. 672. In England under the judicature acts proctors may practise in all divisions of the supreme court of judicature. One of the representatives of the clergy in the convocations of the two provinces of Canterbury and York in the church of England. An official in a university whose function it is to see that good order is kept. See Queen’s Proctor.