单词 | mandatary |
释义 | mandataryn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > properly appointed > appointed by papal mandate mandatary1465 1465 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 203 (MED) I, Willyam Barton, messynger and mandatary of our said haly fadre, by th'auctority of the forsaid lettrez citatory..openly protest by thes presentz. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mandataire, a Mandatarie; one that comes to a Benefice by a Mandamus. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 117 A Mandatary, to whom the Pope has..given a Mandate for a Benefice. 2. Chiefly Law. A person to whom a mandate (mandate n. 1, 3 or 4) is given. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] ministerc1300 substitute1391 vicarc1400 vicary?14.. deputyc1425 vicegerent1549 vicarian1598 mandatary1607 mandatar1681 mandatee1774 mandatory1862 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > a representative assembly > fact of representing or being represented > mandate > one to whom mandate is given mandatary1793 mandatory1833 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. H3 The Bailiffes name & office is growne into such contempt, at the least, these bailiffes of hundreds, that they are now but bare messengers and mandataries within their liberties to serue writs, and such like base offices. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Mandatary, he to whom a commandement or charge is given. 1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. i. ii. 17 A Priest..is an Advocate, Mediator, Intercessor,..Vicegerent, Mandatary, Interpellant. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. iii. 297 The mandatary is at liberty not to accept of the mandate. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. iii. §34. 458 Where a number of mandataries are named by a proprietor for the management of the same affair. 1793 H. M. Williams France I. App. ii. 266 When the majesty of the people is violated by attempts committed against its mandataries. 1827 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law II. xl. 437 The mandatary undertakes to do some act about the thing bailed. 1848 C. F. Shand Pract. Court of Session I. 154 It never seems to have been disputed that a foreigner not in the country is bound to have a mandatary. 1861 Sat. Rev. 30 Mar. 307/2 For the consideration of a hundred pounds a year,..the Ionian legislator views himself as the mandatary of the nation. 1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) i. iii. 140 Rousseau was aware that sovereignty cannot be delegated: all the legal artifices concerning the representation of the mandator by the mandatary cannot conceal this fundamental truth. 1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. 916/2 Late classical law ultimately granted legal protection to the mandatary if a fee..had been promised, but only by way of an exceptional procedure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1465 |
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