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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
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.
Fiduciary Duties On The Temporal Edges Of Agency Relationships, Deborah A. Demott
Fiduciary Duties On The Temporal Edges Of Agency Relationships, Deborah A. Demott
Faculty Scholarship
The duties that principals and agents owe each other are typically coterminous with the agency relationship itself. But sometimes temporal lines of clean demarcation do less work. The Chapter identifies situations in which an agent may owe duties—including fiduciary duties—to the principal prior to the formal start of their relationship, including any enforceable contract between the parties. Likewise, not all duties that agents and principals owe each other end with the relationship. The Chapter explores the rationales for duties at the temporal peripheries for an agency relationship and the extent to which they are derived from doctrines distinct from agency …