Delegation and Conferment of Agency Differentiated: A comparative Study in Islamic Jurisprudence, Iranian Law, and English Law

While there are similarities between delegation and conferment of agency, they are different from each other. Delegation is basically a subdivision of the principal agency and it may be influenced by death or incapacity of the first agent and in some cases honorarium of the second agent may be incumbent upon the first agent, but given that in conferment of agency there is a document indicating so, the conferment of agency takes place on the basis of a contract as a result of which there will be a transfer of contractual positions, replacement of the first agent by the second agent and finally transfer of rights and obligations of the first agent to the second agent. Also, pursuance of agents and irrevocable delegation are different in them. In this article, we try to offer a comparative analysis between the Islamic law, Iranian law and English law.