Deputy

A substitute; a person duly authorized by an oilicer to exercise some or all of the functions pertaining to the office, in the place and stead of the latter. A deputy differs from an assignee, in that an as- Signec has an interest inthe office itself, and does all things in his own name, for whom his grantor shall not answer, except in special cases; but a deputy has not interest in the office, and is \ by an agent and by a deputy. An agent can only bind his principal when he does the act in the name of the principal. But a deputy may do the act and sign his own name, and it binds his prin- 4 cipal; for a deputy has, in law, the whole power of his principal.

Wharton.