Selected Cases on the Law of AgencyCallaghan, 1925 - 845 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
action agency agreement alleged applied assumpsit authority bank bill bill of lading bind bound broker charge cipal circumstances claim commission common law constructive notice contract contractor corporation Court of Appeals damages dealing deed defendant defendant's delivered doctrine duty employed employer employment estoppel evidence executed fact fendant fraud given held hold independent contractor injury instructions instrument James Harkins judge jury knowledge land lease liable Lord Mass master ment mortgage negligence notice opinion owner paid parol party payment performance plaintiff plaintiff in error power of attorney principal and agent promissory note purchase purpose question ratification reason received recover relation representations respondeat superior responsible rule scope seal sell seller servant signed sold statute statute of frauds Supreme Court third person tion tort transaction trial trust undisclosed principal verdict
Pasajes populares
Página 51 - All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it be felony or misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, or, not being present, have advised and encouraged its commission...
Página 225 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust...
Página 468 - With respect to the question whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong.
Página 32 - And the relation of master and servant exists whenever the employer retains the right to direct the manner in which the business shall be done, as well as the result to be accomplished, or, in other words, "not only what shall be done but how it shall be done.
Página 484 - The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master be proved.
Página 159 - Where a principal has, by his voluntary act, placed an agent in such a situation that a person of ordinary prudence, conversant with business usages and the nature of the particular business, is justified in presuming that such agent has authority to perform a particular act, and therefore deals with the agent, the principal is estopped, as against such third person, from denying the agent's authority.
Página 280 - It does not deny that it is binding on thosfc whom, on the face of it, it purports to bind, but shows that it also binds another, by reason that the act of the agent, in signing the agreement, in pursuance of his authority, is in law the act of the principal.
Página 291 - Where the instrument contains or a person adds to his signature words indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative capacity, he is not liable on the instrument if he was duly authorized; but the mere addition of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, without disclosing his principal, does not exempt him from personal liability.
Página 333 - East. 62, the seller cannot afterwards, on the failure of the agent, turn round and charge the principal, having once made his election at the time when he had the power of choosing between the one and the other.
Página 230 - The obligation arising in such a case is well expressed by saying that a person professing to contract as agent for another, impliedly, if not expressly, undertakes to or promises the person who enters into such contract, upon the faith of the professed agent being duly authorized, that the authority which he professes to have does in point of fact exist.