mandātum ī, n P. n. of 1 mando, a charge, commission, injunction, command, order: mandatum curasse, have performed the commission: a senatu dantur mandata legatis, ut, etc.: ad eos Caesaris mandata deferre, Cs.: nostra exhaurire: deferre, deliver: frangere, H.: publicis mandatis servire: dare alcui mandata ad alqm: occulta mandata, Ta.: dabit mandata reverti, command him to return, O.

—In law, a trust, agreement gratuitously to transact for another: mandati constitutum iudicium, i. e. for breach of trust.