Delegatio
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
I., Delegation.
1.
The changing of one debtor for another, by which the first is discharged and the second put in his place; a kind of novation; if the first debtor be not discharged, it is imperfect delegation.
3.
The act of transferring, or the transfer, of authority. Deliberandum est diu quod statuenduni est semel, /. That which is to be resolved once for all [enacted] should be long considered.