Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2060

Contract agency. Its nature: a contract whereby a person undertakes, on a continuing basis within a specified area of activity, to endeavour to promote and negotiate the conclusion of transactions for the principal's benefit, or to conclude them and sign and perform contracts in the principal's name and for his account. He is deemed the principal's representative in actions brought by or against the principal within the agency territory. Articles 271, 276 of the Commercial Code. Example of a judgment basing its ruling on the respondent's lack of standing in the action because it failed to appreciate the significance of a document signed by the respondent company's sales manager, thereby rendering it defective in its reasoning.