(A) contracts. An agreement to submit to certain arbitrators, matters in dispute between two or more parties, for their decision, and judgment. The persons to whom such matters are referred are sometimes called referees. (B) mercantile law. A direction or request by a party who asks a credit to the person from whom he expects it, to call on some other person named in order to … [Read more...]

An officer by whom the order of causes was laid before the Roman emperor, the desires of petitioners made known, and answers returned to them. Vicat Voc. Jur.; Calvin. … [Read more...]

In Saxon law. A master of requests; an officer to whom petitions to the king were referred. Spelman. … [Read more...]

Latin: Referring individual or separate words to separate subjects; making a distributive reference of words in an instrument; a rule of construction. … [Read more...]

In international law. A communication sent by a diplomatic representative to his home government in regard to matters presented to him which he is unable or unwilling to decide without further instructions. In the modern constitutional law of Switzerland, the referendum is a method of submitting an important legislative measure to a direct vote of the whole people. See … [Read more...]