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Plenipotentiary

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Possessing full powers; as, a minister plenipotentiary is one authorized fully to settle the matters connected with his mission, subject, however, to the ratification of the government by which he is authorized. PLENUM DOMINIUM (Lat.) The unlimited right which the owner has to use his property as he deems proper, without accountability to any one. PLEYNTYFE (L. Fr. from pleyndre, to complain).

In old English law. Plaintiff; a complaining party.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Fully empowered.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Possessing full powers; as, a minister plenipotentiary is one authorized fully to settle the matters connected with his mission, subject, however, to the ratification of the government by which he is authorized. See Minister. PLENUM DOMINIUM (Lat.). The unlimited right which the owner has to use his property as he deems proper, without accountability to any one.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One who has full power to do a thing; a person fully commissioned to act for another. A term applied In international law to ministers and envoys of the second rank of public ministers. Wheat. Hist Law Nat 266.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

One who has full power to do a thing, a person fully commissioned to act for another, — applied, in international law, to ministers and envoys of the second rank of public ministers.