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Law of agency. It is concerned with a set of contractual, quasi-contractual and non-contractual fiduciary relationships that involve a person, called the agent, that is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create legal relations with a third party.

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Say I am contractually obligated not to reverse-engineer a piece of software. But I would quite like to have a report on all its internal functions, of the sort produced by reverse-engineering. So I ...
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A and B purchase (used) machine (say a caterpillar) from a seller S. A did all the negotiations and testing of the machinery with seller misrepresenting relevant issue, B wrote the check and signed ...
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When receiving written correspondence from municipal employees in Ontario, is there a way to determine if the information is legally binding? For example, I received an email from an employee at a ...
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My lease does not have a physical name where it says landlord but rather the company name. It's also signed as the company name. Is that legal ?
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At the high school I go to, our school district's transportation department (likely due to budget reasons) has allocated more students onto one bus than its maximum capacity, resulting in kids sitting ...
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I called in to tell a company something. The people I could reach on the phone are definitely agents of the company, and they definitely got my message. But they told me that they couldn't internally ...
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Is there any established logic for deciding who (software author, computer owner, local user, person who sent a remote command, etc.) is responsible for the actions of a computer? Say that 1000 copies ...
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A recent question asked about the practice of transcribing music for hire. Say I would like to publish a critical analysis of a song. In the process of preparing this analysis I need to actually ...
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As more and more companies replace humans with large language model backed generative AIs (e.g. ChatGPT), I was curious to know if there have been any lawsuits (or compelling legal papers) addressing ...
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I use a computer and the Internet for work. I use a lot of software that is licensed to my employer. Say some software licensed to my employer pops up its license on my employer's computer and demands ...
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Let's suppose an agent wishes to sell products on behalf of an indefinite number of principals and the principals are all direct competitors manufacturing the same kind of widgets. How might the agent ...
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If a ticket seller who is engaged as the agent of a production company (principal) sells some of the tickets at a higher price than the production company sets and pockets the difference, can the ...
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If I hire an electrician to do some job, and he caused a fire at the house. Am I also somehow legally responsible for the accident because I hired him and not another electrician, who might have been ...
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I'm running an agency and I would like to store the names of employees of my client's companies to help me build client relationships. For example, "Gina works on reception." Is this allowed ...
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Can my brother in Florida give me his Power of Attorney when I reside in North Carolina, not Florida?
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