Title Second: Effects of Agency Between Principal and Agent
Article 769
Art. 769 - The mandate is a contract whereby the principal entrusts the agent, who accepts, with the task of managing one or several affairs or of performing one or several acts or deeds. The acceptance of the mandate may be merely tacit and result from the execution given to it by the agent.
Article 770
Article 770 - In principle, the mandate is gratuitous, but nothing prevents it from being compensated. Gratuity is not presumed: 1 - when the mandatary undertakes by profession or status the services which are the subject of the mandate; 2 - between merchants, for commercial affairs; 3 - when, according to usage, the acts which are the subject of the mandate are compensated.
Article 771
Art. 771 - The mandate may be given subject to a condition, from a specified date, or until a certain date.
Article 772
Art. 772 - To grant a mandate, one must be capable of performing the act that is its object by oneself. The same capacity is not required of the mandatory; it suffices that the latter possess discernment.
Article 773
Art. 773 The mandate is null: 1 - if it has an impossible or insufficiently determined object; 2 - if it has as its object acts contrary to public order, morals, or laws.
Article 774
Article 774 - The mandate is void if it has for object an act which no one can accomplish by another, such as that of taking an oath.
Article 775
Art. 775 - Unless otherwise provided by law, the power of attorney may not be granted in a form other than that required for the act that is its purpose.