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Queen's proctor

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noun

  1. (in England when the sovereign is female) an official empowered to intervene in divorce and certain other cases when it is alleged that material facts are being suppressed

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As the Queen's proctor intervenes, in certain cases, between two litigants in the interests of justice, so it may be permitted me to interpose as a sort of uncommissioned science proctor.

From The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature by Huxley, Thomas Henry

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