What is a contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine called?
mandate — (Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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