Delatura

In old English law

The reward of an informer.

Whishaw.

DELECTUS PERSONAE (or PERSONArum). (Lat. the choice of the person.) A term applied to the doctrine that no new member can be introduced into a firm without the unanimous consent of the then partners.

Shumaker, Partn. 9.

This doctrine excludes even executors and representatives of partners from succeeding to the state and condition of partners.

7 Pick. (Mass.) 237; 3 Kent, Comm. 55.

In Scotch Law. The personal preference which is supposed to have been exercised by a landlord in selecting his tenant, by the members of a firm in making choice of partners, in the appointment of persons to ofiice, and other cases. Nearly equivalent to personal trust, as a doctrine in law. Bell, Diet.

DELEGATA POTESTAS NON POTEST delegarl

A delegated authority cannot be again delegated.

Coke, 2d Inst. 597; 5 Bing. N. C. 310; 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1300; Story, Ag. § 13; 11 How. (U. S.) 233.

DELEGATE ^Lat. deligere, to choose from). One authorized by another to act in his name; an agent or attorney. A person elected, by the people of an organized territory of the United States, to congress, who has a seat in congress, and a A person elected to any deliberative assembly. It is, however, in this sense generally limited to occasional assemblies, such as conventions, and the like, and does not usually apply to permanent bodies, as houses of assembly, etc.