Vice

In the place or stead; used in the composition of words denoting a delegated or deputed authority. Vice-chancellor: an equity judge who acts as assistant to the chancellor, holding a separate court, from which an appeal lies to the chancellor. Vice-principal: a servant who stands in the place of the common master in dealing with other servants; a deputy master.

In English law

Vice-admiralty courts: courts established in the queen's possessions beyond seas, with jurisdiction over maritime causes. Vice-comes: the sheriff, to whom the custody of the shire is said to have been committed at the first division of England into counties; — non misit breve: the sheriff hath not sent the writ; the form of continuance on the record after issue and before trial. Vice-comitissa: a viscountess; — dotissa: viscountess dowager. Vice-consul: the deputy or substitute of an earl, who was anciently called consul. Vice-gerent: a deputy or lieutenant. In Saxon law. Vice-dominus: the governor of a province.