Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly

Edited by Professor Francis D Rose

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ABILITY TO INTERVENE AS AN UNDISCLOSED PRINCIPAL

The Osprey

The English rule of agency allowing an undisclosed principal to intervene into a contract made between his agent and a third party has always defied easy classification1 and ends up being best defined as a rule of commercial convenience. It was

1. See Reynolds, Bowstead on Agency, 15th edn., (Sweet & Maxwell, 1985), 312–314; Fridman, Law of Agency, 6th edn., (Butterworths, 1990), 228–229; Treitel, Law of Contract, 8th edn., (Sweet & Maxwell, 1991), 631–634.

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