Definition of Mandatary

1. Noun. The recipient of a mandate.

Exact synonyms: Mandatory
Generic synonyms: Receiver, Recipient
Derivative terms: Mandate, Mandate

Definition of Mandatary

1. n. One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.

Definition of Mandatary

1. Noun. One who receives a mandate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mandatary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandatary

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mandatary (current term)
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Literary usage of Mandatary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story, James Schouler (1878)
"It must not concern the Interest of the mandatary alone. Joint Interest. 150. { Whether[ the mandatary has a Special Property in the thing. 151. ..."

2. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"Bights of mandatary. It is of the very essence of the contract of mandate that it be gratuitous. Lafourche Navigation Co. v. ..."

3. Institutes of American Law by John Bouvier (1854)
"As the mandatary has no special property in the mandate, his duties toward the ... (c) But a mandatary who is known to possess certain skill, and agrees, ..."

4. The Practice of the Court of Session: On the Basis of the Late Mr. Darling's by Charles Farquhar Shand, James Johnston Darling (1848)
"mandatary, WHEN NECESSARY, &c. Let us now consider in what cases it is necessary for a pursuer to have the concurrence of a mandatary. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Contracts Connected with the Custody and by Isaac Edwards (1878)
""When the mandatary has converted the property to his own use, ... If the mandatary, intrusted with the goods of another, puts them into the hands of a ..."

6. Studies in Roman Law, with Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England by Thomas Mackenzie Mackenzie (1865)
"called the mandatary. It is essential to this contract that it should be ... The mandatary is not bound to undertake the business ; but when he does so, ..."

7. The Civil Code of Brazil: Being Law No. 3,071 of January 1, 1916, in Effect by Brazil, Joseph Wheless (1920)
"I), may be a mandatary, but the principal has no action against him except ... Of the Obligations of the mandatary. Art. 1300. The mandatary is obliged to ..."

8. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1839)
"Eliott, and in the course of preparing the record, the pursuer moved the Lord Ordinary to ordain the defender to sist a mandatary; which motion the Lord ..."

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