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Agency and agent, have in popular use a number of different meanings but in law the word 'agency' is used to connote the relation which exists where one person has an authority or capacity to create legal relations' between a person occupying the position of principal and third parties. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), 4th Edn., Para 1, p. 4. See also Kennedy v. De Trafford, (1897) AC 180; International Harvestor Co. of Australia Pvt. Ltd. v. Carrigane Hazeldene Pastoral Co., (1958) 100 CLR 644.