After three years in the Home Office, Juliet was appointed Treasury solicitor and procurator general.
The procurator general was appointed by the Supreme Soviet for five years.
As his father's lieutenant, the king's oldest son usually was appointed procurator general for all the realms.
When this morning at 8.45am, Mornet, the Procurator General, came to him to inform him that he was to be executed at 9.30, Laval was lying in bed.
Arrived at the place of execution, he said to the Procurator General, "I pity you for the work you have done".
From 1722, moreover, there was a procurator general keeping watch over the daily work of the Senate and its chancellery and acting as "the eye of the sovereign".
He has made contact with the Swiss procurator general's office, which is plowing through a huge investigation into Russian companies registered in the country -- in particular those controlled or created by Berezovsky.
The Soviet constitution charged the procurator general with the general duty of supervising the observance of the law by all ministries and institutions subordinate to them as well as by individual officials and citizens.
Catherine II issued a directive in 1764 stating that the procurator general and his staff were to supervise the execution of the laws in the provinces, ensure justice, and prevent abuses.
The Soviet constitution invested the procurator general (Russian: generalny prokuror) with the responsibility of supervising the observance of the law by all government ministries and institutions subordinate to them, as well as by individual officials and citizens.
The Senate was also involved albeit indirectly in coordination, mainly because its procurator general, Prince Aleksandr A. Vyazemsky, held the office for a quarter of a century with the full trust of the empress.
