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Delegatus non potest delegare






Delegatus non potest delegare

One of the pivotal principles of administrative law: that a delegate cannot delegate. In other words, a person to whom an authority or decision-making power has been delegated to from a higher source, canot, in turn, delegate again to another, unless the original delegation explicitly authorized it.

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Principles
By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are kuown as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Delegate
A person elected by the people of a territory of the United States, to congress, who has a seat in congress, and a right of debating, but not of voting.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.

Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.

Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.

Original
Contracts, practice, evidence. An authentic instrument of something, and which is to serve as a model or example to be copied or imitated. It also means first, or not deriving any authority from any other source as, original jurisdiction, original writ, original bill, and the like .

Delegation
Legislation. It signifies the whole number of the persons who represent a district, a state, and the like, in a deliberative assembly.



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Delectus
Latin. Choice; selection. The right to choose the person or persons who shall participate in a business or enterprise requiring the exercise of mutual confidence.

Delectus personae
This phrase, which literally signifies the choice of a person, is applied to show that partners have the right to select their copartners; and that no set of partners can take another person into the partnership, without the consent of each of the partners.

Delectus personarum
Choice of persons or the persons.

Delectus personę
Choice of person.

Delegata
Deputied, empowered, entrusted.

Delegata potestas non potest delegari
Delegated authority cannot be re-delegated.

Delegate
A person elected by the people of a territory of the United States, to congress, who has a seat in congress, and a right of debating, but not of voting.

Delegation
Legislation. It signifies the whole number of the persons who represent a district, a state, and the like, in a deliberative assembly.

Delegatus
Latin. A person chosen or commissioned: a deputy, agent, representative, trustee.



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Delegata
Deputied, empowered, entrusted.

Delegata potestas non potest delegari
Delegated authority cannot be re-delegated.

Delegate
A person elected by the people of a territory of the United States, to congress, who has a seat in congress, and a right of debating, but not of voting.

Delegation
Legislation. It signifies the whole number of the persons who represent a district, a state, and the like, in a deliberative assembly.

Delegatus
Latin. A person chosen or commissioned: a deputy, agent, representative, trustee.

Delegatus non potest delegare

Deliberation
1) Contracts, crimes. The act of the understanding, by which the party examines whether a thing proposed ought to be done or not to be done, or whether it ought to be done in one manner or another. 2) Legislation. The council which is held touching some business, in an assembly having the power to act in relation to it.

Delict
Civil law. The act by which one person, by fraud or malignity, causes some damage or tort to some other. In its most enlarged sense, this term includes all kinds of crimes and misdemeanors, and even the injury which has been caused by another, either voluntarily or accidentally without evil intention; but more commonly by delicts are understood those small offences which are punislied by a small fine or a short imprisonment.

Delictum
Latin. From de-linquere, to leave a person or thing; then, to be wanting in a matter, fail in duty, offend, transgress. Compare Malus or Malum. A wrong, whether private or public: an offense, a civil injury or tort, a crime; also, simply a failing or fault, blame, guilt, culpability. 3 Bl. Com. 363; 1 Kent 552, 2 id. 211.

Delinquency
The commission of an illegal act by a juvenile.

Delinquent
Civil law. He who has been guilty of some crime, offence or failure of duty.

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