Delegate - Indian Laws - General

Delegate In Corpus Juris Secundum , Volume 26, delegate has been described as follows: As a noun, a person sent and empowered to act for another, one deputed to represent another in a more popular but less accurate sense, a regularly selected member of a regular party convention. As a verb, in its general sense and as generally used, the term does not imply, or point to, a giving up of authority, but rather the conferring authority upon some one else. At common law , it is the transfer of authority by one person to another, the act of making or commissioning a delegate. Expression delegation of authority or power is a term which like the word delegate does not imply a parting with powers by the person who grants the delegation, but points rather to the conferring of an authority to do things which otherwise that person would have to do himself. In Collins Cobuild English Dictionary the word delegate has been stated to be A person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people. If you delegate duties, responsibilities, or power to some one, you give them those duties, those responsibilities, or that power so that they can act on your behalf. If you are delegated to do something you are given the duty of acting on some one else s behalf by making decisions, voting, or doing some particular work. In Black s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, the word delegate has been stated to mean A person who is appointed, authorised, delegated or commissioned to act in the stead of another. Transfer of authority from one to another. A person to whom affairs are committed by another. Delegation according to said dictionary means, the instructing another with a general power to act for the good of those who depute him; transfer of authority by one person to another. According to Venkataramaiya s Law Lexicon , Delegation as the word generally used does not imply a parting with powers by the person who grants the delegation, but points rather to a conferring of an authority to do things which otherwise the person would have to do himself. JK. CORP. LIMITED VERSUS SALES TAX OFFICER, KORAPUT II CIRCLE, RAYAGADA AND OTHERS - 1998 (8) TMI 549 - ORISSA HIGH COURT