Deputy

[Fr. depute; L. Lat. deputatus.] A person appointed, designated or deputed to act for another. One who exercises an office, &c., in another's right, having no interest therein, but doing all things in his principal's name, and for whose misconduct the principal is answerable. Termes de la ley.

Tomlins.

Deputy was anciently used in the sense of assignee. Thus, an administrator was called the ordinary's deputy. See Administrator. So the assignees of an estate were sometimes termed deputies. Assignee is said in the old books to include deputy as being the more comprehensive term. Thus a man who had power to make assigns might always make deputies.

Termes de la ley

The distinction was at the same time taken that assignee signified a person who had an estate or interest in the office itself, and acted in his own name and right, whereas a deputy always acted in the name and right of another. Id. Perkins, c.

1, § 100. Cowell.