Explanation of Article 484
The article indicates that legal acts are divided into two sections:
Section One: Legal acts related to administrative tasks, which are actions that do not involve a fundamental change or modification in the item prepared for a specific purpose, such as preservation, maintenance, and short-term leasing.
Section Two: Legal acts not related to administrative tasks, which are acts aimed at creating a legal effect, such as selling, buying, gifting, reconciliation, waiver, transferring ownership, or modifying or terminating it, and they show their deviation from administrative tasks.
The article clarified that the default is that agency in all legal acts is specific to determining the legal act and what it entails, such as agency in selling or buying.
A general agency in administrative tasks deviates from this default, as a general agency in administrative tasks is valid without specifying the type of acts, such as when a person authorizes another to manage a property, allowing the agent to perform the legal acts included in ordinary administrative tasks, such as leasing, maintenance, preservation, and the like, without engaging in non-ordinary administrative acts, such as selling the crop or goods.
It is noted that agency varies with the seriousness of the acts, as in donations, it is required that the agency be specific in the type and subject of the act, whereas in administrative tasks, a general agency is valid without specification, and in acts generally, a specific agency in the type and subject of the act is valid.
Related To
Article 484
Any act other than acts of management shall require a special power of attorney that specifies the type of the act and the dispositions the agent is authorized to perform.