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Agency

Definition

a relationship created when one person, the principal, delegates to another, the agent, the right to act on his or her behalf in business transactions and to exercise some degree of discretion while so acting. an agency gives rise to a Fiduciary relationship and imposes on the agent, as the Fiduciary of the principal, certain duties, obligations, and high standards of good faith and loyalty. (also see agent, Fiduciary, dual agency, buyer's broker)

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