1. (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction\; a commission; a judicial precept.

2. (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.

3. (n.) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.

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