What is "mandates"

Usage examples of "mandates".

She knew very little about the mandates, except that law decreed every ship carry one, and few of the crew were ever allowed to peep.

What Clevo told her about the mandates opened up a topic she had never considered before.

The mandates were quite small, Clevo explained, each little more than a cubic meter in volume.

Ottomans during the First World War, their territory was divided up by the British and French, who established mandates over much of the former Ottoman Empire.