procureur

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The deputy-procureur was, therefore, the first magistrate of M.rseilles, when one morning his door opened, and M. M.rrel was announced.

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  1. A procurator; especially, in some countries, an attorney; in French law, the public prosecutor (procureur du roi or de la république), corresponding in a general way to a district or county attorney in the United States. Chudnofski … was put into a strait-jacket in the same bastion in the spring of 1878 for insisting upon his legal right to have pen and paper for the purpose of writing a letter of complaint to the Procureur. G. Kennan, The Century, XXXV. 527.
  2. Procureur général in French law, the public prosecutor-in-chief, corresponding in a general way to the attorney-general in American law, but having supervision over the procureurs du roi or de la république.

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  1. F. (later G. procureur = Russian prokurorŭ), from Latin procurator, procurator: see procurator and proctor.
 

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