Constituted Authorities

The officers properly appointed under the constitution for the government of the people. Those powers which the constitution of each people has established to govern them, to cause their rights to be respected, and to maintain those of each of its members. They are called constituted, to distinguish them from the constituting authority which has created or organized them, or has delegated to an authority, which it has itself created, the right of establishing or regulatlishment or settlement Used of controversies settled by the parties without a trial. Calvinus, Lex. A sum paid according to agreement Du Cange. An ordinance or decree having its force from the will of the emperor.

Dig. 1. 4. 1, Cooper's notes.

In Old English Law. An ordinance or statute. A provision of a statute.