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Mandator
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| mandate | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an official or authoritative instruction or command |
| 2. | politics the support or commission given to a government and its policies or an elected representative and his policies through an electoral victory |
| 3. | (often capital) Also called: mandated territory (formerly) any of the territories under the trusteeship of the League of Nations administered by one of its member states |
| 4. | a. Roman law a contract by which one person commissions another to act for him gratuitously and the other accepts the commission |
| b. contract law a contract of bailment under which the party entrusted with goods undertakes to perform gratuitously some service in respect of such goods | |
| c. Scots law a contract by which a person is engaged to act in the management of the affairs of another | |
| —vb | |
| 5. | international law to assign (territory) to a nation under a mandate |
| 6. | to delegate authority to |
| 7. | obsolete to give a command to |
| [C16: from Latin mandātum something commanded, from mandāre to command, perhaps from manus hand + dāre to give] | |
| 'mandator | |
| —n | |
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