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DEPUTIZE Definition & Legal Meaning

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To appoint a deputy; to appoint or commission one to act as deputy toan officer. In a general sense, the term is descriptive of empowering one person to actfor another in any capacity or relation, but in law it is almost always restricted to thesubstitution of a person appointed to act for an officer of the law.

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