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Definition :

Delegation, a sending away; a putting into commission; the assignment of a debt to another; the entrusting another with a power to act in the place of those who depute him.

Delegate, to delegate to another is not to denude yourself, Ishwar Singh v. State of Rajasthan, (2005) 2 SCC 334.

The Indian Constitution accepts the English principle of supremacy of the law in this respect or property, no person can be deprived of it except by authority of law, Constitution of India, Art. 300A.

By an agent, that is the entrusting to another person by an agent of the exercise of a power or duty entrusted to him by his principal is in general prohibited, under the maxim delegatus non-potest delegare, without the express authority of the principal, or authority derived from statute, Halsbury's Laws of England 1(2), para 63, p. 49.