Commutation vs Procuration - What's the difference?
commutation | procuration |
(obsolete) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
(obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.
Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
* 1969 , Philip Ziegler, The Black Death , Folio Society 2006, p. 213:
(legal) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 23:
(linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
The act of procuring; procurement.
The management of another's affairs.
The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between commutation and procuration
is that commutation is (obsolete) a passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation while procuration is the act of procuring; procurement.commutation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Professor Postan has argued in favour of a rapid move towards commutation in the twelfth century which slackened or even went into reverse in the course of the thirteenth.
- Monsieur the Marquis de Sade [was] now holed up in one of his châteaux while his wife worked for the commutation of a sentence passed on him recently for poisoning and buggery.