Procurator In Rem Suam

In Scotch law. A term which imports that one is acting as attorney as to hit, own property. When an assignment of a thing is made, as a debt, and a procuration or power of attorney is given to the assignee to receive the same, he is in such case procurator in rem suam. 3 Stair, Inst. 1. 2. 3, etc.; 3 Ersk. Inst. 3. 5. 2; 1 Bell, Diet. bk. 5, c. 2, sec. 1, § 2. PROCURATOR LITIS (Lat.)

In civil law. One who, by command of another, institutes and carries on for him a suit. Vicat. Procurator is properly used of the attorney of actor (the plaintiff), defensor of the attorney of re%is (the defendant). It is distinguished from advocatus, who was one who undertook the defense of persons, not things, and who was generally the patron of the person whose defense he prepared, the person himself speaking it. It is also distinguished from cognitor, who conducted the cause in the presence of his principal, and generally in cases of citizenship; whereas the procurator conducted the cause in the absence of his principal. Calv. Lex. business or affairs; an agent; an attorney in fact. Calv. Lex. PROCURATOR PROVINCIAE (Lat.)

In the Roman law. A provincial ofl Bcer who managed the affairs of the revenue, and had a judicial power in matters that concerned the revenue. Adams, Rom. Ant. 178. PROCURATORIUM (Lat.) The proxy or instrument by which a proctor is constituted and appointed.

Proctor (attorney) in his own affnir, or with reference to his own property. This term is used in Scotch law to denote that a person is acting under a procuration (power of attorney) with reference to a thing which has become his own property. See Ersk. Inst. 3, 5, 2.

Defined under Procurator in Black's Law Dictionary.