legal-terms
Is there a legal term for a natural person acting under the name of a company?
<p>For example, if a post is made online under the name of a company, that post will be made under the name of the legal entity (company), but it had to be written by an actual natural person operating within that company.</p>
<p>Is there a legal term that describes this junction (a natural person acting on behalf of a company)? Is it simply &quot;representation&quot; or is there some more accurate term?</p>

<h2><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_agency" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Agent</a></h2>
<p>All actions of a company must, of necessity, be made by a natural person because companies are legal fictions - the law treats them as if they are real but they aren't. When a person acts for somebody else, the relevant branch of law is agency law - that person is an agent of the company principal.</p>

<p>While &quot;agent&quot; is indeed the most general term here, for some purposes only an officer of the company can act for it, and so the proper term is &quot;officer&quot; in such cases.</p>
