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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..

Legature :: Legature (n.) Legateship.

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

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

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

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

Delegate :: Delegate (v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

Legation :: Legation (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.

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

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..

Mission :: Mission (n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission..

Accretion :: Accretion (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share..

Collegatary :: Collegatary (n.) A joint legatee.

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

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

Nuncio :: Nuncio (n.) The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios..

Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

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

Subdented :: Subdelegate (v. t.) To appoint to act as subdelegate, or as a subordinate; to depete..

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..

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