Dĕl'e-gā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. delegatio, Fr. délégation, Sp. delegacion, It. delegazione. See DELEGATE, v. t.]

1. The act of delegating, deputing, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate.
2. One or more persons deputed to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, &c.; as, the delegation from Massachusetts.
3. (Civ. Law.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.

Pothier.