Official

An official (from the Latin Officialis, person -or object- related to an officium, see that article) is, in the primary sense, someone who holds an office (i.e. function, mandate, regardless whether it carries a working spece with it) in an organisation, of any kind, but participatng in the exercise of authority (either his own or that of his superior and/or employer, public or legally private). An elected official is a person who is an official by virtue of an election; officials may also be appointed, or sometimes hereditary.

Related Topics:
Officium - Organisation - Election - Hereditary

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