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A judicial command, order, or precept, written or oral, from a court; a direction that a court has the authority to give and an individual is bound to obey. A mandate might be issued upon the decision of an appeal, which directs that a particular action be taken, or upon a disposition made of a case by an inferior tribunal. The term mandate is also used in reference to an act by which one individual empowers another individual to conduct transactions for an individual in that person's name. In this sense, it is used synonymously with Power of Attorney. mandate n. 1) any mandatory order or requirement under statute, regulation, or by a public agency. 2) order of an appeals court to a lower court (usually the original trial court in the case) to comply with an appeals court's ruling, such as holding a new trial, dismissing the case, or releasing a prisoner whose conviction has been over-turned. 3) same as the writ of mandamus, which orders a public official or public body to comply with the law. (See: mandamus, writ of mandate) mandate noun authoritative command, authoritative order, behest, bid, canon, charge, command, command by the court, commandment, decree, decretal, dictate, direction, directive, edict, enactment, fiat, imperative, instruction, judicial command, judicial decree, judicial order, mandatum, order, precept, prescript, prescription, proscription, regulation, request, requirement, requisition, rule, ruling, ultimatum, written order Associated concepts: judicial mandate, legislative mandate, mandate of the court Foreign phrases: Rei turpis nullum mandatum est.The mandate of an immoral thing is void. Cui jurisdictio data est, ea quoque concessa esse videntur, sine quibus juuisdictio explicari non potest. To whom jurisdiction is given, those things also are held to be granted, without which the jurisdiction cannot be exercised. See also: act, agency, article, assignment, brevet, burden, canon, charge, citation, command, decree, delegation, designation, dictate, direction, directive, edict, enactment, instruction, law, measure, mission, mittimus, monition, order, ordinance, plebiscite, precept, prescribe, proclamation, referendum, regulation, requirement, requisition, rule, statute, subpoena, summons, writ MANDATE, practice. A judicial command or precept issued by a court or magistrate, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment, sentence or decree. Jones'. Bailm. 52; Story on Bailm. Sec. 137. MANDATE. Mandatum or commission, contracts. Sir William Jones defines a
mandate to be a bailment of goods without reward, to be carried from place
to place, or to have some act performed about them. Jones' Bailm. 52; 2 Ld.
Raym. 909, 913. This seems more properly an enumeration of the various sorts
of mandates than a definition of the contract. According to Mr. Justice
Story, it is a bailment of personal property, in regard to which the bailee
engages to do some act without reward. Bailm. Sec. 137. And Mr. Chancellor
Kent defines it to be when one undertakes, without recompense, to do some
act for the other in respect to the thing bailed. Comm. 443. See, for other
definitions, Story on Bailm. Sec. 137; Pothier, Pand. lib. 17, tit. 1;
Wood's Civ. Law, B. 3, c. 5, p. 242; Halifax's Anal. of the Civ. Law, 70,;
Code of Louis. art. 2954; Code Civ. art. 1984; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1068.
MANDATE, civil law. Mandates were the instructions which the emperor addressed to public functionaries, which were to serve as rules for their conduct. 2. These mandates resembled those of the pro-consuls, the mandata jurisdictio, and were ordinarily binding on the legates or lieutenants of the emperor of the imperial provinces, and, there they had the authority of the principal edicts. Sav. Dr. Rom. ch. 3, Sec. 24, n. 4. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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