| Title: | Syndic |
| Original Title: | Syndic |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 15 (1765), p. 750 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Joey Kemeny [University of MIchigan] |
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Government
Commerce
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| Citation (MLA): | "Syndic." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Joey Kemeny. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.453>. Trans. of "Syndic," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 15. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Syndic." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Joey Kemeny. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.453 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Syndic," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 15:750 (Paris, 1765). |
Syndic, in matters of government and business , is an official charged with the affairs of a city or community; it is he who convenes assemblies and makes representations in front of the minister or magistrate, as needed in different cases.
The word is derived from the Latin syndicus , or rather the Greek syndycos , which means the same thing.
The syndic is charged with answering for the conduct of the body, with making and recording notes regarding the affairs or the interests of the community; he tracks and corrects the actions and the faults of individuals who are members of the community, or at least he places blame or reprimands them in public assemblies. At the base level, the syndic is at the same time the agent and the censor of the community. The majority of companies of Paris and other cities, such as universities and arts and trades guilds, have their syndic just as do the majority of the cities of Provence and Languedoc.
One also calls a syndic , the one who is charged with soliciting a communal affair, and where he has an interest himself, as occurs in particular with an assembly of creditors where there are multiple lenders to the same debtor who is bankrupt, or who has died insolvent. See Lawyer, etc.
The first magistrate of Geneva is called a syndic ; there are four syndics per year; the longest serving one presides over the council of 25, which is the principal council of the city, and where all matters, from civil to political, are decided: the three other elected syndics cannot be in charge until the end of four years: so that the syndicate rotates among sixteen people, who are always chosen from among those who compose the council of 25.
Syndic is also the name that King Louis XIV accorded by the decrees of his State Council for the erection of particular chambers of commerce in several cities of his kingdom to the merchants, traders, or others who make up said chambers. Those of Rouen are called syndics of commerce of the province of Normandy: in Lille simply syndics of the chamber of commerce : in other cities they are deputies or directors. See Chamber of Commerce, Deputy of Commerce, and Dictionary of commerce , vol. 3, letter 5. [1]
Notes
1. The reference is to Jacques Savary des Bruslons (1657-1716), Dictionnaire universel de commerce (Paris, 1748).