代理制度的沿革及比较法研究

一、代理与罗马法。追溯代理制度的历史,必须从委任契约开始。“委任与代理虽为个别之概念,但二者关系甚为密切,即委任之事务,如须对外为法律行为时,则一般须有代理权之授予,故此情形,委任与代理自相伴而存在。”①可以说,代理行为被概括为一项独立制度以前,只不过作为委任契约中受任人处理受任事务的手段而存在。

This article is a study of agency from both the historical and comparative perspectives.It traces back to the root of agency system from which the agency being created and gives a comparison to“the separatism”under the civil law tradition and“the equalization”under the common law tradition of the agency theory,and reveals the impact of the two theories to the legislation under the two deferent legal system.The author considers that the development of agency law reveals that the agency theory tends to compromise and the agency legislation in the intermational trade attemts to resolve the conflicts existed in the agency laws of the two legal systems.