CREDENTIALS - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CREDENTIALS? Definition of CREDENTIALS in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

In international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can  be received only  in the quality attributed to him  in his credentials. They are,  as it were, his  letter of attorney, his mandate patent,  mandatum manifestum. Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, § 76.

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