Delegation
Definition of Delegation
Del`e`ga´tion | n. | 1. | The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates. | | 2. | One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation. | | 3. | (Rom. Law) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. |
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