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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Saxon law. A master of requests; an officer to whom petitions to the king were referred.

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REFERENDO SINGULA SINGULIS (Lat.) Referring individual or separate words to separate subjects; making a distributive ' ' reference of words in an instrument; construing distributively.

11 East, 322; 2 Powell, Dev. 112.

REFERENDUIVl (Lat.) In international law. A note addressed by an ambassador to his government, submitting to its consideration propositions made to him touching an object over which he has no suificient power, and is without instructions. When such a proposition is made to an ambassador, he accepts it ad referendum; thai is, under the condition that it s\a\, Rf acted uppn by his government, to which it is referred. ' » „ „» oi In Political Economy. A system