Volume III: Private International Law | Chapter 29 (1974): Agency
Completed in November 1970
François Rigaux
1. Terminology and definitions. – Before it is possible to examine the place of agency in the conflict of laws, it is necessary to lay down a clear terminology and to define the main concepts of this subject-matter.
Agency “is a consensual relationship in which one (the agent) holds in trust for and subject to the control of another (the principal) a power to affect certain legal relations of that other”.1
Principal (P) and Agent (A) are bound together by a legal relationsh…