Example sentences of "act as agent " in BNC.
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| 1 | A list of 1797 provides the information that the 25 per cent of London 's banks who did not act as agent to even one country bank included most of those in the West End but only a few of the older of the Lombard Street group . |
| 2 | Alternatively , a dealer may act as agent on behalf of the issuer , placing paper with investors on a best endeavours basis . |
| 3 | Erm the City Council does act as agent for the highway authority within the City of York and actually maintains a a tra transportation model er in conjunction with the County Council with the County Surveyor . |
| 4 | GPA is the manager of the aircraft and will act as agent for the sales of the aircraft prior to the maturity of the securities issued by ALPS . |
| 5 | Default of any transport or accommodation provider or any person acting as agent of the person insured or operation of law . |
| 6 | The unifying factor was Ho Chi Minh , acting as agent of the Comintern , and while it would not manage to suppress its nationalist tendencies indefinitely it was for the moment clearly identified with the Vietnamese working class . |
| 7 | The proposition that in procuring his wife 's signature to the document Duval was acting as agent of Turnbull & Co. would , in my opinion , have been unreal and artificial . |
| 8 | the unilateral assumption of the conduct of matters by the son must be distinguished from the son acting as agent for plaintiffs in the procuring of the signatures of his parents to the deeds . |
| 9 | v. Perry , the wife 's contention was that her husband , in obtaining her consent to the giving of the security , was acting as agent for the bank . |
| 10 | The wife contended that her execution of the charge had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , acting as agent of the bank . |
| 11 | In neither case was there any explicit finding that the debtor was acting as agent for the creditor . |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs. Perry contends that Mr. Colin Perry , in his dealings with her in relation to the execution of the charge , was acting as agent for the bank in obtaining Mrs. Perry 's consent to the giving of the security . |
| 13 | ‘ In both cases it is an essential first step for the wife to be able to show that the husband was acting as agent for the creditor in procuring her signature . |
| 14 | With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank . |
| 15 | ‘ It is convenient to consider first whether the judge was correct in holding that the husband , whatever else he may have done , was not acting as agent for the bank for the purposes of procuring the signature of the wife to the charge . |
| 16 | Unknown to the defendants Y Bank was acting as agent for Z Bank , the plaintiff . |
| 17 | No more is heard of him after this , although Kympton was acting as agent for the commissioners of the sick and wounded at Plymouth in 1703 . |
| 18 | Following half-pay retirement in England , he embarked for India in 1817 and spent three years editing a Tory newspaper in Calcutta and acting as agent of a failed scheme to make the island of Saugor , at the mouth of the Hooghly river , an entrepôt and health resort , after ridding it of tigers ( hence his nickname ‘ Tiger ’ ) . |
| 19 | Secondly , he must be acting as agent in a way of business . |
| 20 | Hopefully with Mick O'Toole 's son Kieran acting as agent the rides should soon mount up and with them will come the winners . |
| 21 | By acting as agent the purchaser will overcome the problem that the vendor no longer has the books and records of the business and may no longer have any accounting staff . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) this rule does not apply where a member of the public deposits money with a solicitor who is acting as agent for a building society or other financial institution and the solicitor has not advised that person as a client as to the disposition of the money . |
| 23 | The argument is that if Target is acting as agent for Newco , then Newco is carrying on a trade as principal through the agency of Target . |
| 24 | Arguably the company secretary was acting as agent for the shareholders . |
| 25 | In this respect , s14(5) of the SGA provides : The preceding provisions of this section apply to a sale by a person who in the course of a business is acting as agent for another as they apply to a sale by a principal in the course of a business , except where that other is not selling in the course of a business and either the buyer knows that fact or reasonable steps are taken to bring it to the notice of the buyer before the contract is made . |
| 26 | The purchaser must be the person suffering loss unless it can be shown that the purchaser was acting as agent for the injured customer . |
| 27 | Others , such as Ealing Public Library , made a formal arrangement to carry Mudie 's books and act as agent for them . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the transaction might be upset if the debtor had acted as agent for the lender and had been guilty of misrepresentation or undue influence . |
| 29 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that the rector of the English College in Rome acted as agent for the English bishops , Talbot became a self-appointed and unofficial agent working assiduously for the interests of Wiseman and Henry Edward Manning ( later cardinal , q.v . ) . |