An agent is a person who is employed to bring his principal into contractual relations with third parties.
At the highest level of abstraction, there are only markets, and everyone is free to enter into contractual relations with everyone else.
For Macneil the relational norms are important in all contractual relations, including within the private sector.
"Imagine a world," he says, "where virtually every activity outside the confines of family relations is a paid-for experience, a world in which traditional reciprocal obligations and expectations -- mediated by feelings of faith, empathy and solidarity -- are replaced by contractual relations in the form of paid memberships, subscriptions, admission charges, retainers and fees".
However, if such an intermediary role was undertaken by an enterprise, it would be regarded as contractual relations in a market.
They added that they had also found "possible operational abuses, whereby the search engine apparently imposes exorbitant conditions on its partners or customers, treats them in a discriminatory manner or refuses to guarantee a minimum degree of transparency in the contractual relations that it establishes with them".
The actor Steven Seagal (below) is being sued by Kill Master Productions and Nu Image for breach of contract, interference with contractual relations and unjust enrichment involving two films currently in postproduction, "Today You Die" and "Mercenary".
The most important were Railtrack, 25 train-operating companies, five freight operators, three rolling-stock leasing companies, and 19 maintenance suppliers.These companies were connected by a web of contractual relations, with Railtrack at its core (the diagram in the next article tries to unravel the web's complexity).
"The actions of F.O.T.A. as a whole, and Ferrari in particular, amount to serious violations of law including willful interference with contractual relations, direct breaches of Ferrari's legal obligations and a grave violation of competition law," the statement read.
The settlement of disputes was in part an administrative task, for which the chief guiding criterion was precedent, while contractual relations were regulated by the use of standard formulas.
He said the company might specifically accuse the union with tortious interference of contractual relations.
