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

Legateship :: Legateship (n.) The office of a legate.

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

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

Delegation :: Delegation (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates..

Legatine :: Legatine (a.) Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power..

Ablegate :: Ablegate (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office..

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..

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..

Legatine :: Legatine (a.) Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution..

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands..

Apocrisiarius :: Apocrisiarius (n.) A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople..

Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Ablegate :: Ablegate (v. t.) To send abroad.

Vicariate :: Vicariate (a.) Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious..

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

Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority..

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..

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

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

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