Proxy

Definition of Proxy

Prox´y

n.	1.	The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity. I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself. - Burke.
	2.	The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another. Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence. - Blackstone.
	3.	A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
	4.	(Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
	5.	(Eccl.) See Procuration.
v. i.	1.	To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.

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