Restatement of the Law of Agency, Third


The Restatement of the Law of Agency is a set of principles issued by the American Law Institute, intended to clarify the prevailing opinion on how the law of agency stands in 2006.

Definition of agency

para 1.01, "Agency is the fiduciary relationship that arises when one person manifests assent to another person that the agent shall act on the principal's behalf and subject to the principal's control, and the agent manifests or otherwise consents so to act."