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
A: Concept of substitution
B: Effects
Section 2: Obligations of principal
Chapter 2: Effects of agency on third parties
Title 4: End of agency agreement
486. Special case of sub-agency
1 minute de lecture
The intuitus personae which characterizes agency agreements suggests that the agent may not be able to substitute another agent. However, this possibility is recognized by Article 1994 of the Civil Code, which sets out the conditions under which the agent's liability to the principal is engaged on account of the substitute agent, with the principal having a direct claim against the sub-agent in al …