Substitute

One placed under another to transact business for him. In letters of attorney, power is generally given to the attorney to nominate and appoint a substitute. Without such power, the authority given to one person cannot, in general, be delegated to another, because it is a personal trust and confidence, and is not, therefore, transmissible. The authority is given to him to exercise his judgment and discretion, and it cannot be said that the trust and confidence reposed in him shall be exercised at the discretion of another; 2 Ves. 645. But an authority may be delegated to another when the attorney has express power to do so; T. Jones 110. See Story, Ag. § 13.

1, v. To put one thing or person in the place of another. 2, n. A person or thing made to take the place of another. 5 Whence substituted agent, executor, deputy, service; substitutionary evidence; and substitution in the sense of subrogation, qq.v. See Delegatus.

contracts, one has a subsequent lien on one only of placed under another to transact the parcels, and the prior creditor business for him; in letters of attor- elects to have his whole demand out ney, power is generally given to the of the parcel of land on which the attorney to norninate and appoint a subsequent creditor ‘takes his lien; substitute. When a man is drawn the latter is entitled, by way of in the militia, he may, in some cases, substitution, to have the prior lien hire a substitute. assigned to him for his benefit; 1