KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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AGENT

AGE

incapacity for reproduction, existing in ei ther sex, and whether arising from struc tural or other causes.

AGE. Signifies those periods in the lives of persons of both sexes which enable them to do certain acts which, before they had arrived at those periods, they were prohibit ed from doing. The length of time during which a per son has lived or a thing has -existed. In the old books, "age" is commonly used to signify "full age;" that is, the age of twenty-one years. Litt. § 259. — Legal age. The age at which the person acquires full capacity to make his own con tracts and deeds and transact business general ly (age of majority) or to enter into some par ticular contract or relation, as, the "legal age of consent" to marriage. See Capwell v. Cap well, 21 R. I. 101, 41 Atl. 1005, Montoya de Antonio v. Miller, 7 N. M. 289, 34 Pac. 40, 21 L. R. A. 699. AGE, Awe, Aive. L. Fr. Water. Kel ham. A suggestion of non age, made by an infant party to a real ac tion, with a prayer that the proceedings may be deferred until his full age. It is now abolished. St 11 Geo. IV.; 1 Wm. IV. c. 37, § 10; 1 Lil. Reg. 54; 3 Bl. Comm. 300, A relation, created either by express or implied contract or by law, where by one party (called the principal or con stituent) delegates the transaction of some lawful business or the authority to do cer tain acts for him or in relation to his rights or property, with more or less discretionary power, to another person (called the agent, attorney, proxy, or delegate) who under takes to manage the affair and render him an account thereof. State v. Hubbard, 58 Kan. 797, 51 Pac. 290, 39 L. R. A. 860; Sternaman v. Insurance Co., 170 N. Y. 13, 62 N. E. 763, 57 I/. R. A. 318, 88 Am. St Rep. 625; Wynegar v. State, 157 Ind. 577, 62 N. E. 38. The contract of agency may be defined to be a contract by which one of the contracting par ties confides the management of some affair, to be transacted on his account to the-other par ty, who undertakes to do the business and renr der an account of it. 1 Liverm. Prin. & Ag. 2. A contract by which one person, with greater or less discretionary power, undertakes to rep resent another in certain business relations. Whart. Ag. 1. A relation between two or more persons, by which one party, usually called the' agent or attorney, is authorized to do certain acts for, or in relation to the rights or property of the other, who is denominated the principal, con stituent, or employer. Bouvier. —Agency, deed of. A revocable and volun tary trust for payment gf debts. Wharton.— Agency of necessity. A term sometimes ap plied to the kind of implied agency which en ables a wife to procure what is reasonably necessary for her maintenance and support on her husband's credit and at his expense, when he fails to make proper provision for her neces sities. Bostwick v. Brower, 22 Misc. Rep. 709, 49 N. Y. Supp. 1046. AGE PRATER. AGENCY.

AGENFRIDA.

Sax. The true master

or owner of a thing. Spelman,

AGENHINA. In Saxon law. A guest at an inn, who, having stayed there for three nights, was then accounted one of the family. Oowell. An agent, a conductor, or manager of affairs. Distinguished from factor, a workman. A plaintiff. Pleta, lib. 4, c. 15, § a One who represents and acts for another under the contract or relation of agency, q. v. Classification. Agents are either general or special. A general agent is one employed in his capacity as a professional man or master of an art or trade, or one to whom the principal confides his whole business or all transactions or functions of a designated class; or he is a person who is authorized by his principal to execute all deeds, sign all contracts, or pur chase all goods, required in a particular trade, business, or employment. See Story, Ag. § 17; Butler v. Maples, 9 Wall. 766, 19 L. Ed. 822; Jaques v. Todd, 3 Wend. (N. Y.) 90; Spring field Engine Co. v. Kennedy, 7 Ind. App. 502, 34 N. E. 856: Cruzan v. Smith, 41 Ind. 297; Godshaw v. Struck, 109 Ky. 285, 58 S. W. 781, 51 L R. A. 668. A special agent is one employed to conduct a particular transaction or piece of business for his principal or authoriz ed to perform a specified act. Bryant v. Moore, 26 Me. 87, 45 Am. Dec. 96; Gibson v. Snow Hardware Co., 94 Ala. 346, 10 South. 304: Cboley v. Perrine, 41 N. J. Law, 325, 32 Am. Rep. 210. Agents employed for the sale of goods or mer chandise are called "mercantile agents," and are of two principal classes,—brokers and fac tors, (

AGENESIA. In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia generandi; sexual impotence;