Provost Marshal
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A military officer appointed to arrest and secure deserters and other offenders, to prevent pillaging, indict offenders, and see to the passage and execution of sentence, and also to perform other certain duties pertaining to the police and discipline of the service. The provost marshal of the navy has charge of prisoners, etc.
Webster.
PROXENETAE (Lat.) In the civil law. Among the Romans, these were persons whose functions somewhat resembled those of the brokers of modern commercial na-