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DATIVE (Lat. dativus, giving or given...

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DATIVE (See also:Lat. dativus, giving or given, from dare, to give)  , the name, in See also:grammar, of the See also:case of the " indirect See also:object," the See also:person or thing to or for whom or which anything is given or done . In See also:law, the word signifies something, such as an See also:office; which may be disposed of at will or See also:pleasure, and is opposed to perpetual . In Scots law the See also:term is applied to persons, duties or See also:powers, appointed or granted by a See also:court of law; thus an " executor-'See also:dative " is an executor appointed by the court and not by a testator . It answers, therefore, to the See also:English See also:administrator (q.v.) . In See also:Roman law, a See also:tutor was either dativus, if expressly nominated in a testament, or optivus, if a See also:power of selection was given .

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