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
Title 1: Classification of agency agreement (mandat)
Title 2: Formation of agency agreement
I: Performance of mandated task
II: Information obligation
III: Obligation of accountability
IV: Invoking of agent's liability
B: Effects
Section 2: Obligations of principal
Chapter 2: Effects of agency on third parties
Title 4: End of agency agreement
487. Concept of substitution
1 minute de lecture
While the performance of an agency agreement is in principle undertaken personally, it follows indirectly from the provisions of Article 1994 of the Civil Code, which governs the liability of an agent who has substituted another agent, that substitution is permitted under certain conditions.
As the Civil Code does not define the scope of substitution, the Court of Cassation has established the pri …
