mandatary
(ˈmændətərɪ)
[ad. L. mandātāri-us, f. mandātum mandate: see -ary.]
† 1. One who is appointed to a benefice by a papal mandate. Obs.
1611 Cotgr., Mandataire, a Mandatarie; one that comes to a Benefice by a Mandamus. 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 117 A Mandatary, to whom the Pope has..given a Mandate for a Benefice. |
2. One to whom a mandate is given. Chiefly in Law: see mandate 3.
1656 in Blount Glossogr. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 315 The mandatary is at liberty not to accept of the mandate. a 1768 ― Instit. iii. iii. §34 (1773) II. 458 Where a number of mandataries are named by a proprietor for the management of the same affair. 1793 Helen M. Williams France I. App. ii. 266 (Jod.) When the majesty of the people is violated by attempts committed against its mandataries. 1826 Kent Comm. (1873) II. xl. 571 If the mandatary undertakes to carry the article from one place to another. 1848 Shand Pract. Crt. Sess. 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. |