Behalf: Difference between revisions

{{pe}}A [[noun]] that, when rendered on the personal stationery of our learned friends, indicates an ''[[agency]]'' arrangement. A beer I hold [[for or on behalf of|for or on my client’s behalf]], remains my client’s while I hold it, my client being otherwise occupied with his one-handed push-ups or whatever other prowess or feat of strength it may have come into his mind to demonstrate. I am my client’s agent. And so to money; amounts I hold for and on your behalf do not correspond to my liabilities to you (except for the uncomfortable ontological fact that holding money for someone, appropos no other contract, of necessity ''generates'' a liability to repay it. There is a difference, that is to say, between money I owe you because we are party to a contract for some good or service, and money some other random gave me to pass on to you, ''a propos'' nothing beyond than my general preparedness to act [[for or on behalf of|for or on your behalf]].