<P> When an agent's authority is terminated, it operates as a termination of subagent also (s . 210). </P> <P> This has become a more difficult area as states are not consistent on the nature of a partnership . Some states opt for the partnership as no more than an aggregate of the natural persons who have joined the firm . Others treat the partnership as a business entity and, like a corporation, vest the partnership with a separate legal personality . Hence, for example, in English law, a partner is the agent of the other partners whereas, in Scots law where there is a separate personality, a partner is the agent of the partnership . This form of agency is inherent in the status of a partner and does not arise out of a contract of agency with a principal . The English Partnership Act 1890 provides that a partner who acts within the scope of his actual authority (express or implied) will bind the partnership when he does anything in the ordinary course of carrying on partnership business . Even if that implied authority has been revoked or limited, the partner will have apparent authority unless the third party knows that the authority has been compromised . Hence, if the partnership wishes to limit any partner's authority, it must give express notice of the limitation to the world . However, there would be little substantive difference if English law was amended: partners will bind the partnership rather than their fellow partners individually . For these purposes, the knowledge of the partner acting will be imputed to the other partners or the firm if a separate personality . The other partners or the firm are the principal and third parties are entitled to assume that the principal has been informed of all relevant information . This causes problems when one partner acts fraudulently or negligently and causes loss to clients of the firm . In most states, a distinction is drawn between knowledge of the firm's general business activities and the confidential affairs as they affect one client . Thus, there is no imputation if the partner is acting against the interests of the firm as a fraud . There is more likely to be liability in tort if the partnership benefited by receiving fee income for the work negligently performed, even if only as an aspect of the standard provisions of vicarious liability . Whether the injured party wishes to sue the partnership or the individual partners is usually a matter for the plaintiff since, in most jurisdictions, their liability is joint and several . </P> <P> Agency relationships are common in many professional areas . </P> <Ul> <Li> employment . </Li> <Li> financial advice (insurance agency, stock brokerage, accountancy) </Li> <Li> contract negotiation and promotion (business management) such as for publishing, fashion model, music, movies, theatre, show business, and sport . </Li> </Ul>

Where does the agent obtain the power to represent the principal