Mandatum
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Mandate · Agency · Commission or Agency · agency · contract of Agency · mandate · mandati iudicium · mandatum
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The consensual contract of agency, whose action (actio mandati) compels an adstipulator or paying surety to account to the principal.
sed quidquid consecutus erit, mandati iudicio nobis restituere cogetur.
They further resemble in this, that whoever pays for the principal can recover the amount from him by action of mandate.
In eo quoque par omnium causa est, quod si quid pro reo soluerint, eius reciperandi causa habent cum eo mandati iudicium.
Ancient Law
The Roman contract of agency or commission.
We now reach the fourth class, or Consensual Contracts, the most interesting and important of all.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Roman contract of agency, compared to the representation of a Paterfamilias by son or slave.
Let us turn again to the contract of Mandatum or Agency.