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?1601 H. Townshend in T. E. Hartley Proc. Parl. Elizabeth I (1995) III. 88 As to be executor or atturney yt is noe exception, and wee are heere in loco of them for whome we be chosen.

1728 R. North Mem. Musick (1846) 91 It is a poorness of spirit..that inclines men to pronounce for the present, and allow nothing to times past. Cannot wee put ourselves in loco of former states?

1778 Compl. Coll. State Trials (ed. 4) IX. 392 The Attorney is in loco of the Client.

1826 E. Younge Cases, Statutes, & Eccl. Laws, relating to Tithes III. 1111 The grantee is to be considered as standing in loco of the crown.

1866 P. Fraser Treat. Law of Scotl. Relative to Parent & Child (ed. 2) iv. ii. 473 The powers of these officers are the same over the estate as those of tutors and curators, in loco of whom they come.

1963 Columbia Law Rev. 63 394 The state assists parents who seek to prevent this corruption, or may even act in loco of those parents who are remiss in protecting their own children.

1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 25 Of Hereditarie incumbrances affectedly, of which also in loco, and anon.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxiii. 243 It [sc. the soul] cannot change place because it has none for Spirits are not in Loco.

1790 W. Coxe Trav. Poland, Russia, Sweden & Denmark III. App. 435 The trial may be made in loco, and no other criminal cases than those touching life and honour be brought thither.

1865 Philos. Mag. 371 When the figures 1, 2, 3 remain in loco there are 5 modes.

1891 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. H. zu Solms-Laubach Fossil Bot. i. 19 Others..made the entire material of the coal-seams grow in loco, adopting therefore the theory of autochthonous origin.

1908 Practitioner Jan. 22 Some toxin either generated in loco..or reaching the skin from some distant focus of disease.

1988 Stanger (S. Afr.) Mail 23 Dec. 3 Members of the Town Board invited MEC Mr Peter Miller..to do an in loco inspection.

2014 G. Voloshin European Union's Normative Power 9 These are indeed the best-positioned individuals to evaluate in loco the effectiveness of the EU's normative power.

1645 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 136 These assistants were chosen to continnue till the 9th of October next. Mr. Henry Dawson in loco Sir Alexander Davison, mort... Wardens. Thomas Sherwood in loco Robert Crissop, [etc].

1686 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 190 Richard Lloyd..a knight; judge of the Admiralty in loco[Sir Leoline] Jenkyns.

1710 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1869) III. 434 George Jaffrey was this day elected..a Representative in loco Mark Hunkin.

1998 Australian (Nexis) 21 Dec. 11 It called for a council—perhaps only a trio of elders, made up of former governors and judges, to act in loco monarchy.