PROCUREUR DU ROI,
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in French law, is a public prosecutor, with whom rests the initiation of all criminal proceedings. In the exercise of his office (which appears to include the apprehension of offenders) he Is entitled to call to his assistance the public force, (posse comitatus;) and the officers of police are auxiliary to him.
By Henry Campbell Black
