Editing Procuration (section)

==Ecclesiastical usage==
{{Main article|Canon law (Church of England)}}
{{See also|Procurator (canon law)|Procurator (Russia)}}
In the [[Canon law (Church of England)|ecclesiastical law]] of the [[Church of England]], procuration is the provision of necessaries for [[bishop]]s and [[archdeacon]]s during their visitations of parochial churches in their dioceses. Procuration originally took the form of meat, drink, provender, and other accommodation, but was gradually changed to a sum of money. Procuration is an ecclesiastical due, and is therefore suable only in a spiritual court. In those dioceses where the bishops' estates have vested in the ecclesiastical commissioners, procurations are payable to the commissioners, who, however, have abandoned their collection.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>Phillimore, ''Ecc. Law'', 2nd ed., 1895, pp. 1051, 1060</ref>