A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]
In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
To put in the place of another; to substitute. [R.] Dr. H. More.
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