Mandatum
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In the civil law. Mandate (g. V.) MANDATUM NISI GRATUITUM NULlum est. Unless a mandate is gratuitous, it is not a mandate.
Dig. 17. 1. 1. 4; Inst. 3, 27; 1 Bouv. Inst, note 1070.
MANDAV! BALLIVO. In English practica The return made by a sheriff when he has committed the execution of a writ to a bailiff of a liberty, who has the right to execute the writ. MANENS (pi. manentes; Law Lat. from manere, to remain or stay). In Saxon and tural tenant (qui hydan colit).
Spelman.
The ceorls are mentioned in the later Anglo-Saxon charters, under the name of manentes.
1 Spence, Ch. 50.