Legal Definition and Related Resources of Agency
Meaning of Agency
A relation between two or more persons, by which one party, usually called the “agent” or “attorney,” is authorized to do certain acts for, or in relation to the rights or property of, the other, who is denoininated the “principal,” “constituent,” or “employer.” Prof. Joel Parker, MSS. Lect. 1851. See “Agent.”
Translate Real Estate Agency from English to Spanish
Translation of Real Estate Agency , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Agencia de bienes raíces and other legal terms is available here.
- Agencia de bienes raíces
- Oficina de bienes raíces
- Legal English Translation
What does Agency mean in American Law?
The definition of Agency in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
The relationship between two persons such that one, the agent may so act as to subject the other, the principal, to legally enforce-able relationships with, and liabilities to, third parties. The term also refers to the body of law concerned with such relationships.
The relationship of agency is one of the most important and pervasive in practical life. Almost all business transactions-contracts, sales, leases-are effected by agents, and a particular kind of agent, a “servant,” does much of the world’s work on behalf of a special kind of principal called a “master” (see master and servant). Members of partnerships act bindingly on behalf of each other, and a corporation too, having no biological existence of its own, must act only through agents. Further, under some circumstances family members can also bind each other with respect to third parties.
Moreover, since the critical issue with respect to most agency situations is the situation of the third party, agency can arise not only consciously and intentionally, e.g., when Jones hires or otherwise contracts with Smith to be his agent and enter into transactions on Jones’s behalf (see actual authority; agency in fact; express agency), but also when Jones allows things to develop such that a third party would reasonably believe that Smith had such power (see apparent authority; agency by estoppal). And the power to bind another may be a mere consequence of a particular legal status, e.g., a person can under some circumstances bind a spouse to pay for certain
purchases.
Hence, the “law of agency,” even when it is deemed to include the law of “master and servant,” hardly covers all agency relationships and attendant
legal rules, which are scattered throughout much of law (including, where it appears as “conspiracy,” criminal law).
See also administrative agency.
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Synonyms of Agency
(Commission), noun
- administration
- authority
- bureau
- charge
- command
- committee
- control
- delegation
- department
- office
- Associated Concepts: administrative agency
- governmental agency
(Commission), noun
- administration
- authority
- bureau
- charge
- command
- committee
- control
- delegation
- department
- office
- Associated Concepts: administrative agency
- governmental agency
(Legal relationship), noun
- activity
- appointment
- assignment
- authority
- care
- charge
- command
- commission
- conduct
- conduct of affairs
- control
- delegation
- deputation
- derivative authority
- direction
- dominion
- duty
- employ
- employment
- function
- governance
- handling
- instrumentality
- intermediation
- intervention
- jurisdiction
- management
- mandate
- mission
- procuracy
- procuration
- proxy
- quest
- representation
- responsibility
- role
- service
- services
- superintendence
- supervision
- task
- trust
- Associated Concepts: actual agency
- agency by estoppel
- agency coupled with an interest
- agency of necessity
- deed of agency
- exclusive agency
- express agency
- general agency
- implied agency
- scope of the agency
- undisclosed agency
- vicarious liability foreign phrases: Actus me invitofactus non est meus actus
- An act done against my will is not my act
- Quifacit per aliumfacitperse
- He who acts through another acts himself
- Qui mandat ipse fecissi videtur
- He who orders or commands is deemed to have done the thing himself
- Quod per me non possum
- necper alium
- What I cannot do myself
- I cannot do through the agency of another
- Vicarius non habet vicarium
- A vicar has no deputy
(Legal relationship), noun
- activity
- appointment
- assignment
- authority
- care
- charge
- command
- commission
- conduct
- conduct of affairs
- control
- delegation
- deputation
- derivative authority
- direction
- dominion
- duty
- employ
- employment
- function
- governance
- handling
- instrumentality
- intermediation
- intervention
- jurisdiction
- management
- mandate
- mission
- procuracy
- procuration
- proxy
- quest
- representation
- responsibility
- role
- service
- services
- superintendence
- supervision
- task
- trust
- Associated Concepts: actual agency
- agency by estoppel
- agency coupled with an interest
- agency of necessity
- deed of agency
- exclusive agency
- express agency
- general agency
- implied agency
- scope of the agency
- undisclosed agency
- vicarious liability
- foreign phrases: Actus me invitofactus non est meus actus
- An act done against my will is not my act
- Quifacit per alium facit per se
- He who acts through another acts himself
- Qui mandat ipsefecissi videtur
- He who orders or commands is deemed to have done the thing himself
- Quod per me non possum
- necper alium
- What I cannot do myself
- 1 cannot do through the agency of another
- Vicarius non habet vicarium
- A vicar has no deputy
Resources
See Also
System/systemic.
ACTION THEORY; STRUCTURATION.
Further Reading
Freud, Sigmund. (1900a). The interpretation of dreams. Part I, SE, 4: 1-338; Part II, SE, 5: 339-625.
. (1940a [1938]). An outline of psycho-analysis. SE, 23: 139-207.
. (1950c [1895]). Project for a scientific psychology. SE, 1: 281-387.
Grunberger, Béla. (1979). Narcissism: psychoanalytic essays. (Joyce S. Diamanti, Trans.). New York: International Universities Press. (Original work published 1971)
Further Reading
Morrison, K. (1999). Agency, ontology, & analysis: R. Schafer’s hermeneutic conflict. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 22, 203-220.
English Legal System: Agency
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Agency :
1. The relationship between an *agent and his principal.
2. The business carried on by an agent.
Concept of Agency in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Agency: Any relationship in which one party (agent) acts for or represents another (principal) under the authority of the latter. Agency involving real property should be in writing, such as listings, trusts, powers of attorney, etc.
Concept of Agency in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Agency: Any relationship in which one party (agent) acts for or represents another (principal) under the authority of the latter. Agency involving real property should be in writing, such as listings, trusts, powers of attorney, etc.
Definition of Agency
The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Agency: This term is linked to sociologies which focus on the individual as a subject and view social action as something purposively shaped by individuals within a context to which they have given meaning. This view is usually contrasted with those sociologies which focus on social structure and imply the individual is shaped and constrained by the structural environment in which they are located. See: ACTION THEORY in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law.
Agency: Resources
Notes and References
- Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Agency. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada
Agency
Meaning of Agency
Resources
See Also
Agency
See Also
- Governance
- Bureau Shaping
- Contracting Out
- Marketization
- New Public Management
- Quango
- Politics-
Administration Dichotomy
Further Reading
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Majone, G. (Ed.). (1990). Deregulation or re-regulation?
London: Pinter.
Pollitt, C., Talbot, C., Caulfied, J., & Smullen, A. (2004).
How governments do things through semi-autonomous
organizations. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wilson, J. (1989). Bureaucracy: What government agencies
do and why they do it? New York: Basic Books. - Agency in the Encyclopedia of Governance, Mark Bevir – University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2007, SAGE Publications
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