Law of agency. It is concerned with a set of contractual, quasi-contractual and non-contractual fiduciary relationships that involve a person, called the agent, that is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create legal relations with a third party.
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Is the bus driver forced to break a law when allocated more students than the maximum capacity of the bus?
At the high school I go to, our school district's transportation department (likely due to budget reasons) has allocated more students onto one bus than its maximum capacity, resulting in kids sitting in the aisles, or hanging off of a seat. I've…
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Can a corporation refuse to know things its agents know?
I called in to tell a company something. The people I could reach on the phone are definitely agents of the company, and they definitely got my message. But they told me that they couldn't internally handle what I had told them, and asked me to tell…
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As a non-US person, what license may I have to use public materials from agencies of US government?
I want to reuse a gif published in this website of this US government agency. I don't see any copyright statement anywhere, except a link to Freedom of Information Act. In my vague understanding of this, it doesn't seem to say anything about having…
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Can I store the names of arbitrary business associates in my CRM system?
I'm running an agency and I would like to store the names of employees of my client's companies to help me build client relationships.
For example, "Gina works on reception."
Is this allowed within GDPR? Can I legally do this in the UK?
Why or why…
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Accepting online contracts on behalf of a corporation
I use a computer and the Internet for work. I use a lot of software that is licensed to my employer.
Say some software licensed to my employer pops up its license on my employer's computer and demands that someone click an accept button. Or say that…
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What is the liability of an escrow agent who failed to do his job?
This question is a followup to this question regarding a failed. building purchase.
The seller's attorney had agreed to be the escrow agent for the transaction. That is, he was supposed to receive the purchase price, X from the buyer, an amount Y-X…
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Can a property management company sign a lease as a company?
My lease does not have a physical name where it says landlord but rather the company name. It's also signed as the company name. Is that legal ?
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Can I make an intermediate copy of an entire work for the purpose of enabling me to criticize it?
A recent question asked about the practice of transcribing music for hire.
Say I would like to publish a critical analysis of a song. In the process of preparing this analysis I need to actually analyze the song.
That is is going to be much easier…
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How can an agent represent more than one principal without receiving secret commissions?
Let's suppose an agent wishes to sell products on behalf of an indefinite number of principals and the principals are all direct competitors manufacturing the same kind of widgets.
How might the agent provide sufficient disclosure to receive…
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Sale of principal's tickets by an agent above face value
If a ticket seller who is engaged as the agent of a production company (principal) sells some of the tickets at a higher price than the production company sets and pockets the difference, can the production company recover some of that money?
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Am I responsible for accidental damage done by an electrician?
If I hire an electrician to do some job, and he caused a fire at the house. Am I also somehow legally responsible for the accident because I hired him and not another electrician, who might have been more competent and avoided the accident? Or I…
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Power of Attorney Process Between 2 Individuals residing in Different states
Can my brother in Florida give me his Power of Attorney when I reside in North Carolina, not Florida?
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Has agency law been tested against LLM backed agents?
As more and more companies replace humans with large language model backed generative AIs (e.g. ChatGPT), I was curious to know if there have been any lawsuits (or compelling legal papers) addressing whether principals are bound by the…
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Can someone from a non-English speaking country and university apply for universities inside Canada or US without TOEFL or IELTS?
Someone at OneKeyVisa immigration agency told my friend that she can apply for and get accepted to US universities and get her Student Visa without any English test scores and then request some English units instead after being accepted as a…
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Do any states provide legal authority for administrative agents to perform official state actions when they are "not working"?
Context: A state OSHA compliance officer drives onto private property in an unmarked vehicle, exits their vehicle, announces "who's in charge?", then states that they are "not working"; that they just happened to be driving by, and that they decided…
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