See Also: mandate(medicine)
mandate(2)(dictionary)
mandate(1)(dictionary)
Mandate(finance)
Mandate(money)
Given a Mandate(money)
mandate 1, noun(dictionary)
mandate 2, verb(dictionary)
MANDATE, civil law(law)
MANDATE, practice(law)

mandate(1) (iou)



mandate noun. E16.
[Latin mandatum use as noun of neut. pa. pple of mandare command, send out, enjoin, commit, from manus hand + base of dare give: see -ATE1.]
gen. A command, an order, an injunction. Now literary. E16.
a. A judicial or legal command from a superior to an inferior; in early English law, a command of the monarch to a court relating to a private suit; in US law, a document conveying a decision of a court of appeal to a court below for the enactment of judgement. E16.
b. A papal rescript, esp. with reference to preferment to a benefice. E17.
c. Hist. A command from the monarch to elect a fellow of a college or to confer a degree. E17.
d. A pastoral letter. M18-E19.
a. Scots Law. A contract by which a person undertakes to act gratuitously for another. L17.
b. Roman Law. A commission by which one person (the mandator) requests another (the mandatary) to perform gratuitously some service, undertaking to indemnify the mandatary for expenses. M18.
c. A contract of bailment by which a mandatary undertakes to perform gratuitously some service in respect of a thing committed to his or her keeping by the mandator. L18.
a. The commission as to policy supposed to be given by the electors to their elected representatives; support for a policy or measure regarded by a victorious party, candidate, etc., as derived from the wishes of the people in an election; gen. a commission. L18.
doctor's mandate a mandate from the people empowering the government to take extreme measures in the national interest.
Tucson Magazine It's all right to screw the people as long as you were given a large mandate in the previous election.
b. Hist. A commission issued by the League of Nations (1919-1946) authorizing a selected power to administer, control, and develop a territory for a specified purpose; the territory so allocated. E20.