Delegare
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
To assign to another; to transfer a duty or power; to appoint a substitute; to depute or commission; to delegate.* Bract. fol.
108 b.
In the civil law. To substitute another in one's place as a debtor. Delegare est vice sud alium reum dare crediiori vel cut jusserit. To delegate is to give to a creditor, or to him whom the creditor appoints, another person in one's place as a debtor.
Dig. 46. 2. 11.
See Delegation.
See Delegation.