Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Mandate

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Mandate


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(1):

(n.) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.

(2):

(n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

(3):

(n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.