Helpful Hints
- (1) You can search the entire content of Dean’s by phrase or by individual words. Just type your keywords into the search box and then pull down the search icon on the right and choose the option you need: search by word or by phrase or reset the content.
- (2) Double click on a word in the content of a definition, and if the word is listed as a keyword in Dean’s, it will look that word up.
- (3) You can use the search function to help jump the scrolling function. Simply type the first 2-3 letters into the search box then hit enter on your keyboard and the scroll will go to those Keywords that begin with those letters and allow you to scroll from there.
Comparison definition. Connecticut law is instructive. While the existence of an agency relationship often turns on questions of fact, the issue is properly resolved as a matter of law where, as here, the relevant facts are uncontroverted. See Garanti Finansal Kiralama A.S. v. Aqua Marine & Trading Inc., 697 F.3d 59, 71 (2d Cir. 2012) (stating that 'existence and scope of an agency relationship can be resolved as a matter of law' where 'facts are undisputed' or 'there is but one way for a reasonable jury to interpret them').
For guidance on agency law, Connecticut has adopted the Second Restatement of Agency ('Second Restatement'). See, e.g., Wesley v. Schaller Subaru, Inc., 277 Conn. 526, 543-44, 893 A.2d 389 (2006); Macomber v. Travelers Prop. & Cas. Corp., 261 Conn. at 639 n.12; Beckenstein v. Potter & Carrier, Inc., 191 Conn. 120, 132-34, 464 A.2d 6 (1983). Section 1 of that Restatement defines agency as ''the fiduciary relationship which results from manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act on his behalf and subject to his control, and consent by the other so to act.'' Wesley v. Schaller Subaru, Inc., 277 ...
