käsutuses

Käsutuses is an Estonian term used to express that someone acts under the instruction or command of a higher authority. The basic idea is that the actor has limited discretion because the action is performed in obedience to an order. In practice, käsutuses often appears in legal, military, police, or administrative language, where accountability is defined relative to directives issued by supervisors or institutions. The word derives from käsk (order) and is connected to related forms such as käsutus (mandate, instruction) and käsutama (to command).

In usage, käsutuses describes a state rather than a momentary action, and it is commonly used with nouns for people or units, for example as a predicate adjective: someone is on käsutuses, meaning they are under orders. The phrase can also appear in constructions meaning "on the basis of an order" or "per order," depending on the syntactic context.

As a formal term, käsutuses signals that independent decision-making is constrained, and it is thus relevant for discussions of authority, obedience, and responsibility in organizational settings.

See also: Käsk, Käskluse, Käsklus. For precise usage, consult Estonian dictionaries and legal style guides.