Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign LawLittle, Brown, 1882 - 674 páginas |
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Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime ... Joseph Story,Charles Pelham Greenough Visualização integral - 1882 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbott on Shipp action Adolph agency agent agreement Ante arise assumpsit attorney authority Bank Bank of United Bell bill of lading bind Bing bound broker Camp charter-party Chitty cipal civil law Comm common law consignee consignment contract corporation court court of equity Cowen Cowp Cressw damages debt deed deemed defendant doctrine Domat duty East employed employer executed factor fraud held implied indorse injury Inst instrument Justice Kent latter Lect lien Lord Lord Ellenborough Lord Tenterden Mandat Manuf Mass master Mees negligence notice owner paid Pand party payment personally liable plaintiff Post Pothier on Oblig principal purchase ratification received recover responsible revocation Roman law rule seal sell Selw servant ship Smith on Merc Story on Bailm sub-agent Taunt thereof third person tion transaction usage of trade Wels Wend
Passagens conhecidas
Página 521 - ... for the frauds, deceits, concealments, misrepresentations, torts, negligences, and other malfeasances, or misfeasances, and omissions of duty, of his agent in the course of his employment, although the principal did not authorize, or justify, or participate in, or indeed know of such misconduct, or even if he forbade the acts or disapproved of them.
Página 106 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Página 248 - Such an agent has duties to discharge, of a fiduciary character toward his principal ; and it is a rule of universal application, that no one having such duties to discharge shall be allowed to enter into engagements in which he has or can have a personal interest conflicting, or which possibly may conflict with the interests of those whom he is bound to protect.
Página 468 - It is a well-established rule of law, that where a contract, not under seal, is made with an agent in his own name, for an undisclosed principal, either the agent or the principal may sue upon it ; the defendant, in the latter case, being entitled to be placed in the same situation at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party.
Página 272 - Jacob 4 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...
Página 479 - you have a right to the benefit you contemplate from the character, credit, and substance of the person with whom you contract.
Página 54 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof ; unless the agreement, upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Página 539 - And we are not aware of any principle which should except the perils arising from the carelessness and negligence of those who are in the same employment. These are perils which the servant is as likely to know, and against which he can as effectually guard, as the master. They are perils incident to the service, and which can be as distinctly foreseen and provided for in the rate of compensation as any others.
Página 395 - bottomed on this principle, that he who expects to derive advantage from an act which is done by another for him, must answer for any injury which a third person may sustain from it.
Página 141 - In the former case, the principal will be bound by the acts of his agent within the scope of the general authority conferred on him, although he violates, by those acts, his private instructions and directions, which are given to him by the principal, limiting, qualifying, suspending, or prohibiting the exercise of such authority under particular circumstances.