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SYNDIC (Late Lat. syndicus, Gr. vivv&...

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 293 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYNDIC (See also:Late See also:Lat. syndicus, Gr. vivv&aos, one who See also:helps in a See also:court of See also:justice, an See also:advocate, representative, crap, with, and Sirc77, justice)  , a See also:term applied in certain countries to an officer of See also:government with varying See also:powers, and secondly to a representative or delegate of a university, institution or other See also:corporation, entrusted with See also:special functions or powers . The meaning which underlies both applications is that of representative or delegate . Du Cange (See also:Gloss. s.v . Syndicus), after defining the word as defensor, patronus, advocatus, proceeds "Syndici maxime appellantur Actores universitatum, collegiorum, societatum et aliorum corporum, per quos, tanquam in republica quod communiter agi fierive oportet, agitur et See also:fit," and gives several examples from the 13th See also:century of the use of the term . The most See also:familiar use of " See also:syndic " in the first sense is that of the See also:Italian sindico, who is the See also:head of the See also:administration of a See also:commune, answering to a " See also:mayor "; he is a government See also:official but is elected by the communal See also:council from their own members by See also:secret See also:ballot . Nearly all the companies, See also:gilds, and the university of See also:Paris had representative bodies the members of which were termed syndici . Similarly in See also:England, the See also:senate of the university of See also:Cambridge, which is the legislative See also:body, delegates certain functions to special committees of its members, appointed from See also:time to time by See also:Grace, i.e. a proposal offered to the senate and confirmed by it; these committees are termed " syndicates " and are permanent or occasional, and the members are styled " the syndics " of the particular See also:committee or of the institution which they administer; thus there are the syndics of the See also:Fitzwilliam Museum, of the University See also:Press, of the See also:Observatory, of See also:local See also:examinations and lectures, of the Antiquarian Committee, &c .

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