Mandans
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
The employing party in a contract of mandate. One who gives a thing in charge to another; one who requires, requests, or employs another to do some act for him.
Inst. 3. 27. 1. et seq.