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{{pe}}===As [[verbiage]]=== | {{a|pe|[[File:Hold my beer.gif|450px|thumb|center|A client, while his beer was being held, yesterday.]]}} | ||
[[Behalf is a [[noun]] that, when rendered on the personal stationery of [[Legal eagle|our learned friends]], indicates an '''''[[agency]]''''' arrangement. | ===As [[verbiage]]=== | ||
[[Behalf]] is a [[noun]] that, when rendered on the personal stationery of [[Legal eagle|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, ''a propos'' no other contract, of necessity ''generates'' a liability to repay it. | 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, ''a propos'' no other contract, of necessity ''generates'' a liability to repay it. | ||