ADLEGA'TION, noun [Latin ad and legatio, an embassy, from lego, to send. See Legate.] In the public law of the German Empire, a right claimed by the states, of joining their own ministers with those of the Emperor, in public treaties and negotiations, relating to the common interest of the Empire.
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