LEGATION

From Agepedia

LEGATION is used to signify the body of official persons attached to an embassy ; hence secretary of legation. (See Ministers, Foreign.) Counsellor of legation is a title bestowed in Germanythe land of counsellorson certain officers connected with the ministry for foreign affairs. Very often, however, it is a mere honorary title, conferred upon persons who never had any connexion with politics, as Jean Paul Richter, who was made counsellor of legation, by one of the petty princes. Legation also signifies a division of tne States of the Church. (See Legate.)