A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis of Doctrine of Apparent Agency

Apparent agency is one of the new and practical kinds of agencies that have been considered in both legal systems – common law and civil law- and in most laws of different countries in the world – regardless of level of economic and social development - and also in some international documents. Its applications have been increased in different field of agency such as legal entities, new employment relations, hospital liability, bank cards, joint venture contracts …In this article has been tried to study this theory on the legal and economic aspects with analytical – descriptive way and in legal aspect has been referred to comparative study in laws of different countries that show different models of legislating in this field.Findings of this study show that explicit acceptance of this theory, according to several legal and economic benefits in field of agency, is necessary and. ..