foreign principal
foreign principal a person outside the UK instructing an agent (see AGENCY) within the UK. It used to be the case that where an agent act- ing for a foreign principal entered into a contract with a third party, there was a strong presumption that there was no privity between173
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the foreign principal and the third party, with the consequence that the agent might be made personally liable on the contract. This pre- sumption has now weakened, to the extent that the existence of a for- eign principal is regarded as one factor only to be taken into account in construing the parties' agreement.
- First Secretary
- fisheries policy
- fishing
- fitness for purpose, implied term
- fixed charge
- fixed penalty notice
- fixed security
- fixed sum credit
- fixtures
- flagrante delicto
- floating charge
- floodgates
- flotsam
- flying picket
- f.o.b.
- f.o.r.
- forbidden degrees
- force and fear
- force majeure
- foreclosure
- foreign bill
- foreign law
- foreign principal
- forensic
- foreshore