was a fee or retainer given by the Romans to the procuratores and advocati. The mandatum was a necessary condition, without which they had not the liberty of pleading. Thus the legal eloquence of Rome, like that of our own country, could not be unlocked without a golden key.

MANDERSCHÉIT, a town of Germany in the circle of the Lower Rhine, and in the electorate of Triers, capital of a county of the same name, between the diocese of Triers and the duchy of Juliers. E. Long, 6. 32. N. Lat. 50. 20.