procuratory

British

/ ˈprɒkjʊrətərɪ /

noun

law authorization to act on behalf of someone else

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Every crisis in the destinies of the Island Kingdom—and they were many and frequent—produced its batch of these procuratory documents, every batch its quota of pressed men.

From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

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