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Delegation of authority of power

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Delegates, the High Court of

Delegates, the High Court of, formerly the Court of appeal from the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Court. abolished, upon the

house of delegates

house of delegates :house ;esp : the lower house of the state legislature in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia

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Delegatory

Holding a delegated position

delegatee

delegatee : delegate

power

producing an effect [parties of unequal bargaining ] 2 a : authority or capacity to act that is delegated by law or constitution often used in pl. commerce power often cap C&P : the power delegated to

Delegatus non potest delegare

as distinguished from acts and discretions done or exercised in an executive or ministerial capacity for him where delegation was justified or necessary, see Speight v. Gaunt, (1883) 9 AC 1; wide powers of delegation have been

Vicarius non habet vicarium

Vicarius non habet vicarium, a delegate cannot have a delegate. (See Maxim 187). (A delegate cannot have a delegate.) see DEPUTY.

Henry VIII Clause

Henry VIII Clause, is a provision occasionally found in legislation conferring delegated legislative power, giving the delegate the power to amend the delegating Act in order to bring that Act

Sedition

large to be members of such committee or select body, or which shall have any president, treasurer, secretary, delegate, or other officer so chosen or appointed that the election of such persons to such offices shall not

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