Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat/188

Paragraph 1- A gentile cannot become an agent for anything in the world. Similarly, a Jew cannot become an agent for a gentile for anything in the world.

Paragraph 2- A person can use a man or woman as an agent, even a married woman. Even a slave or maidservant, because they are intellectually capable and subject to some of the mitzvos, can be used as agents for commerce purposes. Those that are intellectually incapable, such as deaf-mutes, fools and minors, however, cannot be used as agents and cannot appoint agents. This is true for both male and female minors. Thus, if one sends his minor son to the storekeeper and gave him a pundyon, which is the equivalent of two issar, who gave it to the storekeeper, and the storekeeper poured him an issar-worth of oil and gave him an issar of change, and the minor misplaced the oil and the issar, the storekeeper would be required to pay, because the father only sent the son to inform the storekeeper and he should not have sent the items back with anyone other than someone who is intellectually capable. The same applies to anything similar. With respect to the barrel that the sender gave to the minor and the storekeeper poured into, if the minor had broken it the storekeeper would be exempt unless he took it into his own possession, used it to measure for others and returned it to the minor. If the father is explicit and said send the oil to me with the minor, the storekeeper would be exempt.

Paragraph 3- If one said to another to send the maneh of his in the other’s possession with so and so, he may send it with him if he wants to and the sender would be exempt and not responsible for what happens to the maneh, even if the agent was a minor.

Paragraph 4- If one sends to anther to send the money of his that he has with an agent, whether it is a loan or deposit, the law is discussed in Siman 121.

Paragraph 5- Any situation where the agents deviates from the wishes of the sender the agency would be completely void.

Paragraph 6- If an agent suffered damage because of his agency or if they gossiped about him because of it and he lost money, the sender would not be required to reimburse him for his damages. See above 176:48.