Syndic

In French law. The assignee of a bankrupt. One who is chosen to conduct the affairs and attend to the concerns of a body corporate or community.

In this sense, the word corresponds to director or manager. Rodman, Notes to Code de Com. p. 351; Civ. Code La. art. 429; Dalloz.

In French Law. The assignee of a bankrupt. So in Louisiana. One who is chosen to conduct the affairs and attend to the concerns of a body corporate or community. In this sense the word corresponds to director or manager. Rodman Notes to Code de Com. p. 351; La. Civ. Code, art. 429; Dalloz, Diet. Syndic.

In the civil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or prochrator; an assignee. Wharton. See Minnesota L. & T. Co. v. Beebe, 40 Minn. 7, 41 N. W. 232, 2 In R. A. 418; Moblle & O. R. Co. v. Whitney, 39 Ala. 471.

In French law. The person who is commissioned by the courts to administer a bankruptcy. He fulfills the same functions as the trustee in English law, or assignee in America. The term is also applied to the person appointed to manage the affairs of a corporation. See Field v. United States, 9 Pet. 182, 9 L. Ed. 94.

2 F. The assignee of an insolvent; also, a director, or the managing director, of a community — company or corporation. In Louisiana, all the property rights of an insolvent who makes a cession, pass to the syndic. ^

The assignee of an insolvent's or bankrupt's estate in France. Also, sometimes, the manager of the concerns of a corporation or company.