mandate

legal order

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In diplomatics: Classification of documents
…be classified as diplomas or mandates. Privileges and diplomas give evidence of legal transactions designed to be of long duration or even of permanent effect, while mandates and many papal letters contain commands.
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In diplomatics: The royal chanceries of medieval France and Germany
…types of documents, diplomas and mandates, were produced north of the Alps, in the Merovingian, Carolingian, German, and French royal chanceries. Very little is known about the Merovingian royal chancery and its organization. The names of the scribes are never mentioned in the documents, but they were signed by high…
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In diplomatics: The chanceries of smaller European nations
The mandates are more simply executed. They lack the invocatio and start out with a simple intitulatio and inscriptio that ends with a salutation clause. There is neither arenga nor corroboratio, but there is a command clause in the text. The dating consists only of the…
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