Delegate

v. To commit power to another as agent or representative; to empower, depute, n. The person who is to exercise any such power; as, a Territorial delegate.

See Delegatus.

Delegation. 1.

At common law, the transfer of authority; the act of making a delegate or deputy. ^ 2. In civil law, the substitution of one debtor for another: a species of novation. The change of one debtor for another, when he who is indebted substitutes a third person who obligates himself in his stead to the creditor; so that the first debtor is acquitted and his obligation extinguished, and the creditor contents himself with the obligation of the second debtor. ' A delegation demands the consent of all three parties; any other novation demands the consent only of the two parties to the new debt.'

See Novation.