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Deputation :: Deputation (n.) The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency..

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical..

Credential :: Credential (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate..

Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..

Depute :: Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

Resumption :: Resumption (n.) The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc..

Delegate :: Delegate (a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge..

Co-legatee :: Co-legatee (n.) A joint legatee.

Legatee :: Legatee (n.) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

Vicegerent :: Vicegerent (a.) Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another..

Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it..

Cumulative :: Cumulative (a.) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.

Delegate :: Delegate (n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting..

Empower :: Empower (v. t.) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor..

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..

Legatary :: Legatary (n.) A legatee.

Democracy :: Democracy (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic..

Relegation :: Relegation (n.) The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile..

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.

Legature :: Legature (n.) Legateship.

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