Mandate most often refers to:
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League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate represented a legal status under international law for specific territories following World War I, involving the transfer of control from one nation to another. These mandates served as legal documents establishing th ...
s, quasi-colonial territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919
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Mandate (politics)
In representative democracies, a mandate is a perceived legitimacy (political), legitimacy to rule through popular support. Mandates are conveyed through elections, in which voters choose political parties and candidates based on their own pol ...
, the power granted by an electorate
Mandate may also refer to:
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Mandate (aftershave) Mandate is a British aftershave brand.
In the 1970s, there were television commercials for Mandate featuring the French pop singer Sacha Distel
Alexandre "Sacha" Distel (29 January 1933 – 22 July 2004) was a French musician and singer who had ...
, British aftershave brand
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Mandate (criminal law)
A criminal court may impose a "mandate" as part of a legal process on a person accused of a crime consisting of an obligation to engage in certain conditions or activities in exchange for suspension or reduction in penalty; such as, conditions ...
, an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction
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Mandate (international law)
In international law, a mandate is a binding Law of obligations, obligation issued from an International organization, inter-governmental organisation (e.g. the United Nations) to a country which is bound to follow the instructions of the organisa ...
, an obligation handed down by an inter-governmental body
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''Mandate'' (magazine), a monthly gay pornographic magazine
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Mandate (trade union)
Mandate is a trade union representing retail, administrative and distributive workers in Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the ...
, a trade union in Ireland
* , various ships of Britain's navy
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Mandate (typeface)
Mandate most often refers to:
* League of Nations mandates, quasi-colonial territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919
* Mandate (politics), the power granted by an electorate
Mandate may also r ...
, a brash-brush typeface designed by R. Hunter Middleton
* The formal notice of decision from an
appeal
In law, an appeal is the process in which Legal case, cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of cla ...
s court
* A requirement for a
Health maintenance organization
In the United States, a health maintenance organization (HMO) is a medical insurance group that provides health services for a fixed annual fee. It is an organization that provides or arranges managed care for health insurance, self-funded hea ...
to provide a particular product
See also
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Contract of mandate
A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of those a ...
, a contract of
bailment
Bailment is a legal relationship in common law, where the owner of personal property ("chattel") transfers physical possession of that property to another, who holds the property for a certain purpose, but retains ownership. The owner who sur ...
of goods without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to have some act performed about them
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Individual mandate
An individual mandate is a requirement by law for certain persons to purchase or otherwise obtain a good or service.
United States Militia act
The Militia Acts of 1792, based on the Constitution's militia clause (in addition to its affirmative ...
, an often controversial government requirement for the purchase of goods by individuals
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Mandate of Heaven
The Mandate of Heaven ( zh, t=天命, p=Tiānmìng, w=, l=Heaven's command) is a Chinese ideology#Political ideologies, political ideology that was used in History of China#Ancient China, Ancient China and Chinese Empire, Imperial China to legit ...
, a traditional Chinese concept of legitimacy used to support the rule of the kings of the Shang Dynasty and later the Emperors of China
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Divine mandate, a political and religious doctrine
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