Delegation

[Lat. delegatio, from delegare, q. v.] In the civil law. The changing or substitution of one debtor for another, by which the obligation which lay on the first debtor is discharged; a species of novation, (q. v.) JSrsk. Inst. b.

3, tit. 4, § 22.

Delegation is novation affected by the intervention of another person whom the debtor, in order to be liberated from his creditor, gives to such creditor, or to him whom the creditor appoints; and such person so ^iven becomes obliged to the creditor in the place of the original debtor.

Burge on Suretyship, 173.

See Civ. Code of Louis, art.

2188.