Mandator

3 definitions found

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

  Mandator \Man*da"tor\, n. [L.]
     1. A director; one who gives a mandate or order. --Ayliffe.
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     2. (Rom. Law) The person who employs another to perform a
        mandate. --Bouvier.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mandator
       n : an authority who issues a mandate

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

  MANDATOR, contracts. The person employing another to perform a mandate. 
  Story on Bailm. Sec. 138; 1 Brown, Civ. Law, 382; Halif. Anal. Civ. Law, 70.