subdelegatedadj.

1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iii. viii. 121 That Absolution, pronounced by the Priest to any Person, over whom he has neither Ordinary nor Subdelegated Jurisdiction, is null.

1845 Eclectic Mag. Sept. 133/2 In Russia, every man has his price in money;—the minister, the judge... Making the power..with which an arbitrary system invests them down to the last refraction of sub-delegated authority, a matter of notorious purchase.

1849 H. Fish Class-leader's Man. i. 12 Your office, it is evident, is a sub-delegated office, involving sub-delegated ministrations.

1949 J. D. Mooney Princ. Organization 27 The police rules regulating street traffic represent the exercise of a subdelegated legislative function.

1990 Independent (Nexis) 13 July 17 There is one quite general question affecting all such sub-delegated legislation,..namely, the right of the public affected to know what the law is.

2004 Columbia Law Rev. 104 2175 Scholars have raised the possibility of limiting Chevron deference to exercises of primary authority, as opposed to subdelegated authority.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 310 A sub-delegated Judge, to whom only some part of the mesne Process in a Cause is committed in the second Place by a delegated Judge.

1750 Universal Mag. July 44/1 We have received advice, that the subdelegated commission,..has already begun to establish the affairs of religion upon their former footing.

1866 M. Lenihan Limerick xxv. 163 He came to the resolution,..together with the sub-delegated Bishops, of publishing an excommunication against the accomplices and adherents of the truce.

1885 F. Hall Laws of Mexico 32 The subdelegated ministers who are to make and execute the sale and composition of the lands.

2001 D. Parrott Richelieu's Army ii. vii. 384 Such figures were subdelegated officials, nominated by the commissaires généraux des vivres.