Cases on Principal and Agent: Selected from Decisions of English and American CourtsWest Publising Company, 1914 - 879 páginas |
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Cases on Principal and Agent: Selected From Decisions of English and ... Edwin C 1865-1942 Goddard Pré-visualização indisponível - 2023 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action affirmed agent agreement Alfred Cooper alleged apparent authority appears appellant applied assumed Assumpsit authority to sell Bank benefit bill bind bound charge cipal cited claim collect contract conveyance corporation court of equity custom debt deed defendant defendant's delivered doctrine effect employed estoppel evidence executed fact fendant fraud given held indorse instructions instrument insured interest Iowa judgment jury knowledge land letter liable loan Mechem ment Minn mortgage notice opinion is omitted paid parol party payment performance plaintiff plaintiffs in error possession power of attorney principal purchase quantum meruit question ratification reason received recover relation replevin repudiate revocation revoked rule seal sold statute of frauds Story on Agency subsequent suit Supreme Court third persons thority tiff tion tract transaction trial trust unauthorized act valid verdict void voidable warranty
Passagens conhecidas
Página 436 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present...
Página 740 - It does not deny that it is binding on those 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 696 - But if the agent once actually undertakes and enters upon the execution of a particular work, it is his duty to use reasonable care in the manner of executing it, so as not to cause any injury to third persons, which may be the natural consequence of his acts...
Página 202 - That an act done for another, by a person, not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well established rule of law.
Página 234 - ... a power coupled with an interest"? Is it an interest in the subject on which the power is to be exercised, or is it an interest in that which is produced by the exercise of the power? We hold it to be clear that the interest which can protect a power after the death of a person who creates it must be an interest in the thing itself. In other words, the power must be engrafted on an estate in the thing. The words themselves would seem to import this meaning. "A power coupled with an interest...
Página 463 - ... that where such an agreement is made, it is competent to show that one or both of the contracting parties were agents for other persons, and acted as such agents in making the contract, so as to give the benefit of the contract on the one hand to, and charge with liability on the other, the unnamed principals; and this, whether the agreement be or be not required to be in writing by the statute of frauds; and this evidence in no way contradicts the written agreement.
Página 44 - ... drafting the petition to set forth the claim, attending to the taking of testimony, collecting facts, preparing arguments, and submitting them orally or in writing to a committee or other proper authority, and other services of like character. All these things are intended to reach only the reason of those sought to be influenced. They rest on the same principle of ethics as professional services rendered in a court of justice, and are no more exceptionable.
Página 798 - Salk. 160, for the product of or substitute for the original thing still follows the nature of the thing itself, as long as it can be ascertained to be such, and the right only ceases when the means of ascertainment fail...
Página 793 - A party has a right to select and determine with whom he will contract, and cannot have another person thrust upon him without his consent.
Página 792 - you have a right to the benefit you contemplate from the character, credit, and substance of the person with whom you contract.