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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Subagent \Sub*a"gent\, n. (Law)
   A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a
   part, of the business intrusted to the latter. --Bouvier.
   Chitty.
   [1913 Webster]

2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SUB-AGENT. A person appointed by an agent to perform some duty, or the whole 
of the business relating to his agency. 
     2. Sub-agents may be considered in two points of view. 1. With regard 
to their rights and duties or obligations, towards their immediate 
employers. 2. As to their rights and obligations towards their superior or 
real principals. 
     3.-1. A sub-agent is generally invested with the same rights, and 
incurs the same liabilities in regard to his immediate employers, as if he 
were the sole and real principal. To this general rule there are some 
exceptions for example, where by the general usage of trade or the agreement 
of the parties, sub-agents are ordinarily or necessarily employed, to 
accomplish the ends of the agency, there, if the agency is avowed, and the 
credit is exclusively given to the principal, the intermediate agent may be 
entirely exempted from all liability to the sub-agent. The agent, however, 
will be liable to the sub-agent, unless such exclusive credit has been 
given, although the real principal or superior may also be liable. Story on 
Ag. Sec. 386; Paley on Ag. by Lloyd, 49. When the agent employs a sub-agent 
to do the whole, or any part of the business of the agency, without the 
knowledge or consent of his principal, either express or implied, the latter 
will only be entitled to recover from his immediate employer, and his sole 
responsibility is also to him. In this case the superior or real principal 
is not responsible to the sub-agent, because there is no privity between 
them. Story on Ag. Sec. 13, 14, 15, 217, 387. 
     4.-2. Where by an express or implied agreement of the parties, or by 
the usages of trade, a sub-agent is to be employed, a privity exists between 
the principal and the sub-agent, and the latter may justly maintain his 
claim for compensation, both against the principal and his immediate 
employer, unless exclusive credit is given to one of them; and, in that 
case, his remedy is limited to that party. 1 Liv. on Ag. 64; 6 Taunt. R. 
147. 



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