Mandate is a contract whereby one party, the mandatary, binds himself toward the other party, the mandator, to perform one or more juridical acts on account of the mandator without there being a relationship of employment.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 2374
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The contract may oblige the mandatary to act in his own name; it may also oblige him to act in the name of the mandator.