PROCURATOR

A 'procurator' is the incumbent of any of several current and historical political or legal offices. Such an office is often called a 'procuracy' or 'procuratorate'. The term procurator derives from the Latin and generally means one who has care of something in place of another. Hence, in canon law, a procurator acts as a sort of agent for a party in a case (as distinguished from an advocate or lawyer), and in some institutions like colleges and seminaries the procurator is effectively the business, supply, buildings, and/or grounds manager.
'Procurator' may, more specifically, refer to the following:

★ Legal procurator - one of the legal professions in Malta;

★ Promagistrate - a number of different magistrates appointed in the Roman Republic by the Senate;

★ Procurator fiscal - the local public prosecutor in Scotland;

★ Procurator General (Colombia) - independent judicial office charged with conducting disciplinary investigations into allegations of misconduct, including human rights violations, by public officials;

★ Procurator General (United Kingdom) - formal title of the Treasury Solicitor;

★ Procurator to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland - chief counsel to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland;

★ Procurator (office) - any number of historical officers charged with representing individuals and groups in legislative assemblies or courts of law;

★ Teutonic procurator - a function in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.

★ Public Procurator- a position in current and former communist states, analogous to both detective and public prosecutor

★ Roman Procurators of Iudaea Province, 44-132 AD

★ Procurator (Russia) - An office created by Peter The Great of Russia in an effort to bring the Russian Orthodox Church more under his control.