delegate
Defined in 5 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)
United States Code
38 U.S.C. § 1730B — in this section
The term "delegate" means a person or automated system accessing the national network of State-based prescription monitoring programs, or any individual State or regional prescription drug monitoring program, at the direction or under the supervision of a licensed health care provider.
48 U.S.C. § 1757 — for purposes of this subchapter (2 versions over time)
For purposes of this subchapter, the term “Delegate” means the Resident Representative referred to in section 1751 of this title.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A person who is delegated or commissioned to act in the stcad of another ; a person to whom affairs are committed by another; an attorney. A person elected or appointed to be a member of a representative assembly. Usually spoken of one sent to a special or occasional assembly or convention. Manston v. McIntosh, 58 Minn. 525, 60 N. W. 672, 28 In R. A. 605. The representative in congress of one of the organized territories of the United States.
— Delegates, the high conrt of. In English law. Formerly the court of appeal from the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. Abolished upon the judicial committee of the privy council being constiinted the court of appeal in such cases.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A person who is delegated or commissioned to act in the stead of an- A person elected or appointed to be a member of a representative assembly. Usually spoken of one sent la a special or occasional assembly or convention. The representative in congress of one of the organized territories of the United States.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
v. To commit power to another as agent or representative; to empower, depute, n. The person who is to exercise any such power; as, a Territorial delegate. See Delegatus. Delegation. 1. At common law, the transfer of authority; the act of making a delegate or deputy. ^ 2. In civil law, the substitution of one debtor for another: a species of novation. The change of one debtor for another, when he who is indebted substitutes a third person who obligates himself in his stead to the creditor; so that the first debtor is acquitted and his obligation extinguished, and the creditor contents himself with the obligation of the second debtor. ' A delegation demands the consent of all three parties; any other novation demands the consent only of the two parties to the new debt.' See Novation.