General Procurator

The General Procurator ( French: Procureur général ) is an official borrowed from French law .

Already in an order (Ordonnanz) from 1493 the functions of these highest officials of the public prosecutor at the parliamentary courts were defined in more detail. Even today in France the prosecutors in the higher courts hold this title.

In Austria and other countries, the highest public prosecutor's officials employed at the Court of Cassation were also called Procurator General.

In France, so-called general advocates (avocat général) are or were at the side of the general procurator, in Austria the general advocate acts.

In Canada is called Attorney General Procureur général ( Engl. Attorney General).

Church office

Various religious religious orders of the Catholic Church know the office of General Procurator, who acts as an authorized representative of the order at the Holy See and mostly resides in the General Curia of the respective order.

The Teutonic Order knows the office of General Procurator as the first of the three general officials of the Grand Master, it is also the General Economist and General Secretary. In Rome, the General Procurator regulates the affairs of the Teutonic Order at the Holy See.

See also

• Attorney General
• procurator
• Attorney General
• Ranks of the General Procuratorate of the Russian Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is the General Procuratorate? ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ogh.gv.at, accessed on October 19, 2010  
2. ^ Leonhard Scherg , The General Procurators of the Order of the Cistercians at the Holy See from the 16th to the end of the 18th century , in: Analecta Cisterciensia 65 (2015), pp. 246-256.