LS. In International law. Tbe instruments which authorize and estah-lish a public miuister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are address^ ed. If the state or prince receive the mln-ister, lie can he received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. They are. as it were, his letter of attorney, his mandate patent, mandatum manifest uni, Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, § 76
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
