Article 1878Nature, Form and Kinds of Agency

Special powers of attorney are necessary in

the following cases:

(1) To make such payments as are not usually considered

as acts of administration;

(2) To effect novations which put an end to obligations

already in existence at the time the agency was

constituted;

(3) To compromise, to submit questions to arbitration, to

renounce the right to appeal from a judgment, to waive

objections to the venue of an action or to abandon a

prescription already acquired;

(4) To waive any obligation gratuitously;

(5) To enter into any contract by which the ownership of

an immovable is transmitted or acquired either

gratuitously or for a valuable consideration;

(6) To make gifts, except customary ones for charity or

those made to employees in the business managed by

the agent;

(7) To loan or borrow money, unless the latter act be

urgent and indispensable for the preservation of the

things which are under administration;

(8) To lease any real property to another person for more

than one year;

(9) To bind the principal to render some service without

compensation;

(10) To bind the principal in a contract of partnership;

(11) To obligate the principal as a guarantor or surety;

(12) To create or convey real rights over immovable

property;

(13) To accept or repudiate an inheritance;

(14) To ratify or recognize obligations contracted before

the agency;

(15) Any other act of strict dominion. (n)