The Indian Contract Act
190When agent cannot delegate
An agent cannot lawfully employ another to perform acts which he has expressly or impliedly undertaken to perform personally, unless by the ordinary custom of trade a sub-agent may, or, from the nature of the agency, a sub-agent must, be employed.
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Sub-agents
- 190 When agent cannot delegate
- 191 "Sub-agent" defined
- 192 Representation of principal by sub-agent properly appointed
- 193 Agent's responsibility for sub-agent appointed without authority
- 194 Relation between principal and person duly appointed by agent to act in business of agency
- 195 Agent's duty in naming such person