Delegation

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delegation, and agency, is a fertile source of legal maxim. Two crackers:

This latter one ought, but does not, nix that tedious drafting construction: “neither X, nor anyone acting on its behalf, may do Y”. For if, by the lights of the law, X has no right to do a thing, it follows as a matter of ineffable Latin logic that nor may any of X’s servants, agents, attorneys, nominees or delegates, unless that person happens independently to have her own right to do it, conferred by some other means — in which case this stipulation will singularly fail to prevent that person from doing that thing anyway.

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