Agens
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
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One who does an act; an actor or doer. Agentes et consentientes pari poena plectentnr: those who do an act, and those who consent to it shall suffer the same punishment In civil and old English law. One who brings an action; a plaintiff. Agent! ex contractu non potest opponi questio domiuii: one who sues on a contract cannot be met with a question of ownership.