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Agency and agent

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....


Adoption agency

Adoption agency, A local authority or approved adoption society is known as adoption agency. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(3), 2001, 4th Edn., p. 244, para 506.Means a local authority or approved adoption society, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(3), 2001, 4th Edn., Para 553, Note (10), p. 287....


universal agency

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special agency

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regulatory agency

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Private security agency

Private security agency, means a person or body of person other than a government agency; depart-ment or organization engaged in the business of providing private security services including training to private security guards or their supervisor or providing private security guards to any industrial or business undertaking or a company or any other person or property. [The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(g)]...


informal agency action

informal agency action : an action (as investigation, publicity, or supervision) of an administrative agency that is not adjudication or rulemaking ...


implied agency

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general agency

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express agency

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