Agent-Trustee Distinction Framework (NSPE Code Interpretation)
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/126#Agent-Trustee_Distinction_Framework_NSPE_Code_Interpretation
Properties
Instance of
Agent-TrusteeDistinctionFramework
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Agent-TrusteeDistinctionFramework
Confidence
0.88
Created by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review (interpretive reasoning)
Document title
Interpretive Framework: Agent vs. Trustee under NSPE Code Section II.4
Importance
high
Used by
Board of Ethical Review
Used in context
Used by the Board to distinguish between the engineer's role as agent (authorized to act for client) versus trustee (fiduciary/confidential relationship), ultimately resolving that 'trustee' in the Code means a general duty of loyalty and fair dealing rather than a strict fiduciary duty
Version
Applied in this case
Source Evidence
Source text
An 'agent' is generally defined as a 'person authorized by another to act for him or one entrusted with another's business.' A 'trustee' is generally defined as one who stands in a fiduciary or confidential relationship to another.
Text references
An 'agent' is generally defined as a 'person authorized by another to act for him or one entrusted with another's business.' A 'trustee' is generally defined as one who stands in a fiduciary or confidential relationship to another.
it is not clear from a plain reading of the Code whether the original drafters intended that the term 'trustee' embrace the fiduciary and confidentiality relationship or whether it was the intent of the drafters to express a more general duty of loyalty and fair dealing.
TTL
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proeth:textreferences "An 'agent' is generally defined as a 'person authorized by another to act for him or one entrusted with another's business.' A 'trustee' is generally defined as one who stands in a fiduciary or confidential relationship to another.",
"it is not clear from a plain reading of the Code whether the original drafters intended that the term 'trustee' embrace the fiduciary and confidentiality relationship or whether it was the intent of the drafters to express a more general duty of loyalty and fair dealing." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
126
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T10:11:05.176661+00:00
First case
126
Generated
2026-03-01T10:11:05.176661+00:00
Attributed to
Case 126 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T10:31:55.140609
Generated by
ProEthica Case 126 Extraction