procurator fiscal

noun

1. (in Scotland) a legal officer who performs the functions of public prosecutor and coroner Sometimes shortened tofiscal

Example Sentences

The questions addressed to the prisoner were put partly by me, partly by another officer, the procurator-fiscal.

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But one signal calamity the Procurator-Fiscal had to record.

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He had some conversation with the procurator-fiscal, who, as well as the provost, was an old correspondent of his father.

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That Audiencia is composed of a president (who is always the governor), four oidores or auditors, and one procurator-fiscal.

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For a single instant the Procurator Fiscal seemed a little taken aback.

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