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delegation|dɛlɪˈgeɪʃən|
[ad. L. dēlēgātiōn-em, n. of action from dēlēgāre to delegate. So F. délégation (13th c. in Hatzf.).]
1. The action of delegating or fact of being delegated; appointment or commission of a person as a delegate or representative; the entrusting of authority to a delegate.
1612Selden Drayton's Poly-olb. xi. Notes 193 Government upon delegation from the King. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. ii. ii. 72 To countenance such Delegation of an entrusted Office, to Deputies. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 33 The business of the Publick must be done by delegation. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iii. 77 He is a sovereign, inasmuch as he does not rule by delegation from any personal superior.
b. The action of sending on a commission.
1641Smectymnuus Vind. Answ. §13. 130 If the greatest part of Titus his travels had beene before his delegation to Creet.
†c. The action of delivering or assigning a thing to a person or to a purpose. Obs.
1681E. Sclater Serm. Putney 7 There are two parts of Moses his power intimated fairly enough in the delegation of these siluer trumpets.
2. A charge or commission given to a delegate.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §66 Lewis..re-called his Vicar-ship or delegation, which hee had made to Edward. 1690Locke Civ. Gov. ii. xix. (R.), When..others usurp the place, who have no such authority or delegation.
3. A delegated body; a number of persons sent or commissioned to act as representatives.
1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. vii. 261 The government of India..by a delegation of servants. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) I. i. 2 A delegation of some ten or fifteen noble and dignified-looking Indians..suddenly arrived.
b. U.S. The body of delegates appointed to represent a State or district in a representative assembly.
1828Webster s.v., Thus, the representatives of Massachusetts in Congress are called the delegation, or whole delegation. 1865H. Phillips Amer. Paper Curr. II. 43 The Jersey delegation..presented to congress a number of the counterfeits.
4. Civil Law. The assignment of a debtor by his creditor to a creditor of the delegant, to act as debtor in his place and discharge his debt.
1721Bailey, Delegation [in Civil Law] is when a Debtor appoints one who is Debtor to him, to answer a Creditor, in his Place. 1818Colebrooke Oblig. & Contracts i. 208. 1860 J. Paterson Compend. Eng. & Sc. Law 514. 1880 Muirhead Gaius Digest 552 A transaction..called delegation of his debtor by the creditor to the third party.
5. A letter or other instrument, unstamped and not negotiable, used by bankers and merchants in the place of a cheque, bill of exchange or other instrument, for the transfer of a debt or credit.
1882Bithell Counting-ho. Dict. 92 Letters of Credit are mostly simple Delegations.
‖b. A share-certificate: used esp. in reference to Suez Canal shares. [F. délégation.]
1882Daily Tel. 10 Oct. (Cassell), The English government intended purchasing 200,000 Suez Canal delegations. |