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Chancellor of the Order of the Garter

Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and other military orders, an officer who seals the commissions and the mandates of the

Firman

In Turkey and some other Oriental countries a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign a royal order or grant generally given for special objects as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance

Mandatary

is given hence specifically a person to whom the pope has by his prerogative given a mandate or order for his benefice

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VerbarMandator

A director one who gives a mandate or order

Behest

That which is willed or ordered a command a mandate an injunction

Imperial preference

the British Empire, i.e. (for this purpose), the Dominions including India, terri-tories under protection and mandated territories, by Order in Council. See (English) Finance Act, 1919, s. 8, as amended by the Import Duties Act, 1932, s.

Commandment

An order or injunction given by authority a command a charge a precept a mandate

time, place, or manner restriction

justified when it is neutral as to content and serves a significant government interest and leaves open ample alternative channels of communication [an injunction excluding demonstrators from the front of the building was held to be a … as to content and serves a significant government interest and leaves open ample alternative channels of communication [an injunction excluding demonstrators from the front of the building was held to be a reasonable time, place, or manner

Archdeacon

the Act of Appeals. He examines candidates for holy orders, and inducts clerks upon receipt of the bishop's mandate, Wood's Inst. 30. The Law styles him the bishop's vicar or vicegerent.

ministerial

done after ascertaining the existence of a specified state of facts in obedience to legal and esp. statutory mandate without exercise of personal judgment or discretion see also mandamus compare discretionary

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