Exequatur

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exequatur \Ex`e*qua"tur\, n. [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. subj. of
     exequi, exsequi, to perform, execute.]
     1. A written official recognition of a consul or commercial
        agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited,
        and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to
        which he is assigned.


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     2. Official recognition or permission. --Prescott.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EXEQUATUR, internat. law. A declaration made by the executive of a 
  government near to which a consul has been nominated and appointed, after 
  such nomination and appointment has been notified, addressed to the people, 
  in which is recited the appointment of the foreign state, and that the 
  executive having approved of the consul as such, commands all the citizens 
  to receive, countenance, and, as there may be occasion, favorably assist the 
  consul in the exercise of his place, giving and allowing him all the 
  privileges, immunities, and advantages, thereto belonging. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 
  56; 3 Maule & Selw. 290; 5 Pardes. 1445. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EXEQUATUR, French law. This Latin word was, in the ancient practice, placed 
  at the bottom of a judgment emanating from another tribunal, and was a 
  permission and authority to the officer to execute it within the 
  jurisdiction of the judge who put it below the judgment. 
       2. We have something of the same kind in our practice. When a warrant 
  for the arrest of a criminal is issued by a justice of the peace of one 
  county, and he flies into another, a justice of the latter county may 
  endorse the warrant and then the ministerial officer may execute it in such 
  county. This is called backing a warrant.