Proxy
the agency of another who acts as a substitute for his principal; agency of a substitute. The person who is substituted or deputed to act for another. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his pla In English law, every peer, spiritual or temporal, can constitute another lord of Parliament, of the same order with himself, his proxy, to vote for him in his absence; but proxies cannot be used when the house is in committee, nor in any judicial cause.