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Agent

done it himself. See BROKER, FACTOR, MERCANTILE AGENT, VICARIOUS RESPONSIBILITY, and consult Bowstead on Agency or Evans on Principal and Agent. Where the principal is disclosed, only the principal can be sued. Where the principal is not

authority

act granted by someone in a position of control ;specif : the power to act granted by a principal to his or her agent actual authority : the authority that a principal in reality has granted to

Revocation of agency

Revocation of agency. An agency is dissolved or determined in several ways:- (I) by the act of the principal, either (a) Express, as (1) By direct and formal writing, publicly a advertised; (2) By informal writing to

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power of attorney

power of attorney :an instrument containing an authorization for one to act as the agent of the principal that terminates esp. upon revocation by the principal or death of the principal or agent called also letter

Contract note

of this Act, the expression contract note' means the note sent by a broker or agent to his principal, or by any person who by way of business deals, or holds himself out as dealing, as a

Challenge

two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is again subdivided into principal challenges, and challenges to the favour. (1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the

accessory

as an assistant or instigator to the commission of a felony called also accessory before the fact compare principal in the second degree at principal NOTE: The traditional distinction between accessories before the fact and principals, that

Bribe

KB 1283. It has long been settled law that the secret profits of an agent belong to his principal: see De Busche v. Alt, (1878) 8 Ch D 286. The acceptance of a secret commission from the

Factor

affairs; an agent employed to sell goods or merchandise consigned or delivered to him by or for his principal, for a compensation commonly called factorage or commission. Hence he is often called a commission-merchant or consignee; and

This Act

Act, Bhatia International v. Bulk Trading S.A., (2002) 4 SCC 105. The words 'this Act' refer to the principal Act in which s. 3 (2) is inserted by virtue of the amend-ment, and that Act, by virtue

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