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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3000
Agency - Agent and Principal - Definitions
An agent is a person who is authorized to act on behalf of another person or business. The
other person or business is called a principal. The term agent includes an employee, and the term
principal includes an employer. A person can act as an agent even though [he/she] is not paid for
[his/her] work.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3000 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
1b821f23169561939c5895e0e1b429010057e795b1c431d1974a72a35d933254
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