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Agency
A relationship created when one person, the principal delegates to another, the agent the right to act on the principal's behalf in business transactions and to exercise some degree of discretion while so acting. An agency gives rise to a fiduciary relationship and imposes on the agent, as the fiduciary of the principal, certain duties, obligations and high standards of good faith and loyalty.
Added: Fri Jan 06 2006
Last Modified: Tue Mar 14 2006
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