Definitions for "Mandates"
Territories formerly part of either the German or the Ottoman empire that were granted various degrees of independence by the League of Nations after the First World War, under the tutelage of individual Allied states such as Britain and France.
Governments entrusted to European nations in the Middle East in the aftermath of World War I; Britain occupied mandates in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine after 1922. (p. 973)
Keywords:  treaty, see
see treaty mandates
Something required by a statute or regulation.
Mandates are the actions that the affirmative plan specifies are to be taken.