Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2553

Contract agency. Its nature: a contract under which a person undertakes, on a continuing basis within a specified area of activity, to endeavour to solicit and negotiate the conclusion of transactions in the principal's interest, or to conclude them and sign and perform contracts in the principal's name and for his account. He is considered the principal's representative in actions brought by or against him within the agency area. Articles 271, 276 of the Commercial Law. Example of a judgment that based its ruling on the respondent's lack of capacity 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.