Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law - Burril. Bouvier
In the grammar of some languages, for example Latin, the dative, or the dative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the indirect object of a verb, or when it comes after some prepositions. a particular form of a noun in some languages such as Latin and German, which shows that the noun is the indirect object of a verb (dativus , from dare )