Across
- 2. and detour When an agent takes a break from performing their assigned tasks to do something that benefits the agent personally, but not the principal
- 3. Someone who is given authority to act on behalf of someone else
- 7. agency An agency relationship that arises when a principal gives a third party the reasonable impression that someone is its agent, even though no express or implied agency relationship exists
- 9. contractor Someone who has been hired to perform a task but is not an employee
- 10. When one person allows another person to act on their behalf
- 11. of obedience An agent’s obligation to perform the task for which they were hired in a reasonably competent manner
- 12. agency An agency relationship formed when the principal and agent both affirmatively agree to the arrangement
Down
- 1. A person who enlists someone else to act on their behalf
- 4. agency An agency relationship formed when the parties do not expressly agree to become principal and agent but act in a way that implies that they do
- 5. A person’s wrongful act that causes monetary loss or personal injury to someone else
- 6. agency When the other party to a contract does not know that it is being signed by an agent
- 7. by ratification An agency relationship formed when one party holds itself out as an agent, even though it isn’t, but the principal approves of the non-agent’s actions and agrees to be bound by them after the fact
- 8. of avoidance The principal’s right to nullify contracts entered into with an agent in the event of the agent’s breach of the agency contract or of the agent’s duties to the principal