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Agency definition

What does Agency mean?

Agency is a legal relationship between an agent who is a person having the authority or capacity to create legal relations between a principal and third parties.

The agent is a person who has the authority to act on behalf of the principal and consents to do so. The relationship called 'agency' or 'principal-agent relationship' depends on the nature of the agreement and the circumstances. If the substance of the agreement intends that the alleged agent act on his own behalf and not on the behalf of the principal then notwithstanding explicit language in the agreement describing the person as agent, the relation of agency will not have arisen. Conversely, an agency relationship may arise superseding a clause in an agreement that it shall not.


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