Manage

To conduct, direct, or oversee a business or enterprise. In so far as the use of the word is drawn in question in adjudications, it is generally applied to affairs somewhat complex and extended, and requiring a degree of authority, discretion, and judgment, to ensure satisfactory conduct of them. Manager: one charged with the conduct, direction, or oversight of a business or enterprise. Management: direction; oversight. An allegation that a railroad company carelessly managed a locomotive is sustained by proof that they carelessly managed the Are in the locomotive; for the management of an engine consists in part of the management of whatever generates its motive"' force. Smith v. Old Colony, &c.

R. R. Co., 10 R. I. 22.

Management, in speaking of corporations, is sometimes used for the body of persons charged with the conduct of the corporate affairs, in the same way as the direction or the directory is sometimes used for the board having tbe management or direction. Such a use is popular rather than legal. Manager, has a somewhat technical sense in different connections; varying so much under local usage, however, that no strict general definition can be given. Managers of an impeachment are members of the lower or impeaching house, selected to conduct the trial before the other house. Managers is the style or title assigned to the directors in some DiRECTOK. Manager appears to be a usual title, in England particularly, for the chief executive officer of a branch bank, as distinguished from the president, who is at the head of the parent institution; also for the employe in general charge of a private bank or large mercantile house, in distinction from proprietors directing the details of the establishment themselves. Managers of a conference. Members of the houses of parliament appointed to represent each house at a conference between the two houses. It Is an ancient rule that the number of commons named for a conference should be double those of the lords. May Pari. Pr. ch.

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