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Quando aliquid mandatur, mandatur et omne per quod pervenitur ad illud

Quando aliquid mandatur, mandatur et omne per quod pervenitur ad illud. 5 Rep. 116, (When anything is commanded, everything by which it can be accomplished is also commanded.)

Precept

Precept, a rule authoritatively given; a mandate: (1) A command in writing by a justice of the peace or other officer, for bringing a person or record before

Mandavi ballivo

Mandavi ballivo (I have commanded the bailiff). If a bailiff of a liberty have the execution and return of a writ, the sheriff

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Mandatary

Mandatary [fr. mandatarius, Lat.], he to whom a mandate, charge, or commandment is given; also he that obtains a benefice by mandamus.

Lawful authorities

persons (such as the police) with the right to exercise public power, to require obedience to their lawful commands, and to command or act in the public name, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 892.

Law

Lat., to bind], a rule of action to which men are obliged to make their conduct conformable. A command, enforced by some sanction, to acts or forbearances of a class: see Austin's Jurisprudence; 1 Bl. Com. 38.

Enforcement

Art. 226) Has been defined as 'the act or process of compell-ing compliance with a law, mandate or command', (Black Law Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573. The act or process

Habeas corpora juratorum

you have the bodies of the jurors), a process which issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar to the distringas from the King's Bench and

Base-estate

a base estate and villenage, for to hold in pure villenage is to do all that the lord commands; and if a copy holder have but a base estate, he, not holding by the performance of every

Seraskier

A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire especially the commander in chief of minister of war

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