Manage in United Kingdom

Meaning of Manage

The following is an old definition of Manage [1]: To direct, control, govern, administer, oversee. It is not easy to establish a rule as to what may be considered ” unmanageableness ” in a horse, and much depends upon the circumstances of each case. Management. 1. The management of an engine consists in part of the management of whatever generates the motive force. 2. The body of persons who have charge of the affairs of a corporation. See Director. Manager. 1. An officer of a corporation chosen to superintend its affairs. An ambiguous word, since it may mean either a person retained generally to represent the principal in his absence, or one who has the superintendence of a particular contract or job, in which latter case he is like a fellow- workman. General manager. The person who really has the most general control over the affairs of a corporation, and who has knowledge of all its business and property, and who can act in emergencies on his own responsibility.He may be considered as the “principal officer.” Managing agent. An agent having general supervision over the affairs of a corporation. Distinguishes a peraon, representing a corporation, who is invested with general power, involving the exercise of judgment and discretion, from an ordinary agent or employee who acts in an inferior capacity, and under the discretion and control of superior authority, both in regard to the extent of the work and the manner of executing it. Such agent need not have charge of the whole business of the corporation. In several cases in New York, it has been held that “managing agent” means a person exercising the functions of an officer in the contrpl and management of the business of a company or corporation, and does not include a pereon having charge of some special work, as, a baggage-master in respect to baggage, or a person employed to purchase horses and feed, or an assistant secretary, or a person who sells tickets, or who has charge of the transfer of the stock and the transmission of assessments. The adjudications have not gone so far as to hold that no agent is a ” managing agent ” who does not participate in the control of every part of the corporate business, and of every corporate act. Still less has such construction been given where it would defeat justice, and enable a corporation to violate the law with impunity. See Principal, 4, Vice. 2. In England and Canada, the chief executive oiBcer of a branch bank. 3. A member of the impeaching branch of a legislature, selected to assist as counsel at a trial.

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1. Concept of Manage provided by the Anderson Dictionary of Law (1889) (Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence; William C. Anderson; T. H. Flood and Company, Law Publishers, Chicago, United States)