Business Contracts
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: Contract of sale
Part 2: Contract for services
Part 3: Construction contract
Part 4: Subcontracting
Section 1: Characteristics of agency agreement
I: Obligation "to do" for third party beneficiary
II: Representation
Chapter 2: Related contracts
Title 2: Formation of agency agreement
Title 3: Performance of agency agreement
Title 4: End of agency agreement
460. Constituent elements
1 minute de lecture
Article 1984 of the Civil Code gives a relatively vague definition of an agency agreement as “an act by which one person, the principal, empowers another, the agent, to do something for and on behalf of the principal”. The courts have remedied this imprecision by defining the agent's mission more precisely as performing a legal act for and on behalf of the principal, which implies an obligati …