III.   Instruction

To Surrogate is to appoint an agent or authorized representative by rogation in accordance with sovereign authority.

The word Surrogate comes from the Latin word surrogare meaning “to choose, elect or cause someone to be chosen in place of another” from pro meaning “on behalf of, before, for, about, as or like” and rogatio meaning “a solemn prayer and spiritual entreaty concerning an official question, inquiry, proposal, nomination or motion of law expressed through speech”.

A Surrogate court is a tribunal with similar powers to a prerogative court in dealing with matters of probate.

No valid Surrogate may be nominated unless such process is defined and consistent with these Canons of Astrum Iuris Divini Canonum or Articles of Pactum De Singularis Caelum or its associated charters and covenants or codes of law.