Agency
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[Lat. procuratio.] The relation or office of an agent;* the relation between principal and agent.
Story on Agency, § 3.
The administration or management of the business of another person in his behalf, and by his appointment or authority. See Procuration. Agency is founded upon a contract, either express or implied, by which one of the parties confides to the other the management of some business to be transacted in his name, or on his account, and by which the other assumes to do the business, and to render an account of it.
2 Kent's Com. 613.
See Agent.
See Agent.