Procure
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Procure
(v.)
To arrange for something to happen, typically — but not necessarily — by doing it.
Like effect, one of the weakest verbs in the English language. Procurement clarifies something that, unless your contract is one of special personal service, goes without saying: you may perform your contract through the agency of someone else. As long as that someone does what you have undertaken to do, their performance is a good discharge for your obligation.
Before you argue that a vexatious counterparty might take that literal point, and argue that the agent’s performance, unless specially contemplated, does not have the tecjhnical effect of discharging the contract, ask what is the counterparty’s loss that it might sue you for?