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“What they eye don’t see, the chef gets away with.” | “What they eye don’t see, the chef gets away with.” | ||
::---- Terry, the head cook at Fawlty Towers | ::---- Terry, the head cook at ''Fawlty Towers'' | ||
So when your counterparty - a legal fiction, after all, a | So when your [[counterparty]] - a legal fiction, after all, a conceptualised bunch of papers filed at [[Companies House]] - signs your carefully crafted {{t|contract}}, it — for it is an {{sex|it}} — signs through the [[agency]] of an individual: perhaps an [[employee]], a director or someone operating under a [[power of attorney]]. | ||
How can one be sure that a person who ''says'' they have such an authority ''really'' has it? | How can one be sure that a person who ''says'' they have such an authority ''really'' has it? | ||
How indeed. | |||
{{Agencydisclosurescenarios}} | {{Agencydisclosurescenarios}} | ||
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*[[capacity and authority]] | *[[capacity and authority]] | ||
*[[agent]] | *[[agent]] | ||
*[[principal]] | *[[principal]] | ||