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Empire, Trade, And The Use Of Agents In The 19th Century: The “Reception” Of The Undisclosed Principal Rule In Louisiana Law And Scots Law, Laura Macgregor Jun 2019

Empire, Trade, And The Use Of Agents In The 19th Century: The “Reception” Of The Undisclosed Principal Rule In Louisiana Law And Scots Law, Laura Macgregor

Louisiana Law Review

The article discusses the importance of the undisclosed agency concept in agency law in Scots law and Louisiana law in the 19th century, including its theories of origin, use by agents, and importance in trade.


Defining Agency And Its Scope (Ii), Deborah A. Demott Jan 2016

Defining Agency And Its Scope (Ii), Deborah A. Demott

Faculty Scholarship

Fiduciary law necessarily raises issues of delineation and demarcation, which this paper demonstrates through examples involving common-law agents. Serving as an agent, and thus as a fiduciary, does not necessarily mean that agency law prescribes all duties that the agent owes the principal. The agent may have rights external to the relationship that the agent may exercise, distinct from the duty of loyalty owed the principal. When an agent acts outside the bounds of an agency relationship, the principal’s consent is not requisite to conduct that would constitute disloyalty within the bounds of the agency relationship. The paper illustrates the …


Computers As Agents: A Proposed Approach To Revised U.C.C. Article 2, John P. Fischer Apr 1997

Computers As Agents: A Proposed Approach To Revised U.C.C. Article 2, John P. Fischer

Indiana Law Journal

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