A person who is delegated or commissioned to act in the stead of another ; a person to whom affairs are committed by another; an attorney.
A person elected or appointed to be a member of a representative assembly. Usually spoken of one sent to a special or occasional assembly or convention. Manston v. Mcintosh, 58 Minn. 525, 60 N. W. 672, 28 L. R. A. 605.
The representative in congress of one of the organized territories of the United States. Delegates, the high court of. In English law. Formerly the court of appeal from the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. Abolished upon the judicial committee of the privy council being constituted the court of appeal in such cases.