Depitty

* One who acts officially for another; the substitute of an officer — usually of a ministerial officer. Deputize. To appoint another to act in one's own place or office. General deputy. A deputy who is empowered to perform all the ordinary duties of an office. Special deputy. A deputy chosen to do a particular g.ot or acts. An attorney -general, a district-attorney, a collector of revenue, a mayor, a constable, a marshal, a sheriff, a minister or consul, and other officers, are sometimes said to act by deputy. There are two kinds of deputies of a sheriff; a general deputy or under sheriff who by virtue of his appointment has authority to execute all the ordinary duties of the of Bce of sheriff. He executes process without special power from the sheriff, and may even delegate authority for its execution to a special deputy, who is an officer pro hoc vice, to execute a particular writ on some certain occasion. He acts under a specific, not a general, appointment and authority. ' The deputy of a ministerial officer may do whatever his principal could do under the curcumstances of eact case.' See Delegatus.