Dative
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Old English Law. In one's gift; that may be given and disposed of at will and pleasure. Applied to an officer in the sense of "removable," as distinguished from "perpetual."
St. 9 Rich. II. c. 4; St. 45 Edw. III. cc. 9, 10; Cowell.
In Civil Law. That which Is given by the magistrate, as distinguished from that which is cast upon a party by the law or by a testator.
Bouvier.
A dative executor answers to the administrator of the common law. Code Louis, arts.
1671, 1672.