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From the ancient world until the early modern period, any person sent by any other on diplomatic business. In his De Legationibus Libri Tres (1585), Gentili tells us that ‘In Roman law the technical term for ambassadors is legati from legare "to send with a commission"’.
A papal emissary. Entrenched in canon law, the term ‘legate’ was still being used by the Holy See in the twentieth century, long after it had fallen into disuse elsewhere. A papal legate a latere (literally, ‘from the side of the Pope’) is usually a cardinal entrusted with a special mission. The legate missus is now described as a nuncio, while the legate natus has no diplomatic status. See also legation; right of legation. |
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