legation in English

noun
1
a diplomatic minister, especially one below the rank of ambassador, and their staff.
Neutrality itself was certainly taken too far when, on the death of Hitler, de Valera presented the state's condolences to the German legation .
2
the position or office of legate; a legateship.
Mary found herself denounced by the pope as ‘the wife of a schismatic’, Cardinal Pole's legation was revoked, and he was summoned to Rome to answer charges of heresy.
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1. In May 1863, the US legation in Edo was torched.

2. 22 Later we tried to aid those trapped Legation Quarters, to reason with Chinese of responsibility.

3. Synonyms for Consulship include consulate, mission, legation, embassy, deputation, delegation, ministry, consular office, capitoulate and government office

4. Attaché definition, a diplomatic official Attached to an embassy or legation, especially in a technical capacity: a commercial attaché; a cultural attaché

5. In 1897, after the incident when Emperor Gojong took refuge in the Russian legation, he returned to this place and named it Gyeongungung again.

6. The agreed formula among the three governments was that Subhas would travel across Russia on an Italian diplomatic passport impersonating an officer of the Italian Legation in Kabul , Orlando Mazzotta .

7. Yikuang even wrote letters to foreigners, inviting them to take shelter in the Zongli Yamen during the Siege of the International Legations, when Zaiyi's men besieged the Beijing Legation Quarter.

8. Commercial attaché definition is - an officer in the foreign commerce service of a country who is Attached to an embassy or legation in those countries considered important for trade or business.

9. Carr, former Assistant Secretary of State and Chief of the Consular Bureau, was Minister to Czechoslovakia when German forces occupied Prague on March 15, 1939, Carr closed the Legation on March 21, and departed on April 6.

10. Acknowledgments of deeds conveying or encumbering real estate situated in this state, or any interest therein and other instruments in writing, required to be acknowledged, may be taken in any foreign country before any minister, plenipotentiary, secretary of legation, charge d'affaires, consul general, consul, vice consul, consular agent, or commercial agent appointed by the United States

11. He became Auscultator in the district court of Paderborn in 1841, referendar at Münster and Erfurt in 1844, and goverment assessor in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy In 1836 he became an Auscultator at Berlin; in 1837 he was a referendar in the court at Aachen, in 1840 secretary of legation at London and Dresden, in