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Agent

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

One who acts upon employment in the name and place of another who is called the principaL An agent may be a special agent, an agent tV e., for the doing of a special act or acting in a special case; or a general agent, an agent i. e., to transact all business of a do. Agent and patient: doer and the doer of a thing and he to whom