ARTICLE 2. Authority of Agents
Article 2 enacted 1872.
§§ 2304–2326 · 23 sections
- § 2304 An agent may be authorized to do any acts which his principal might do, except those to which the latter is bound to give his personal attention.
- § 2305 Every act which, according to this Code, may be done by or to any person, may be done by or to the agent of such person for that purpose, unless a contrary…
- § 2306 An agent can never have authority, either actual or ostensible, to do an act which is, and is known or suspected by the person with whom he deals, to be a…
- § 2307 An agency may be created, and an authority may be conferred, by a precedent authorization or a subsequent ratification.
- § 2308 A consideration is not necessary to make an authority, whether precedent or subsequent, binding upon the principal.
- § 2309 An oral authorization is sufficient for any purpose, except that an authority to enter into a contract required by law to be in writing can only be given by an…
- § 2310 A ratification can be made only in the manner that would have been necessary to confer an original authority for the act ratified, or where an oral…
- § 2311 Ratification of part of an indivisible transaction is a ratification of the whole.
- § 2312 A ratification is not valid unless, at the time of ratifying the act done, the principal has power to confer authority for such an act.
- § 2313 No unauthorized act can be made valid, retroactively, to the prejudice of third persons, without their consent.
- § 2314 A ratification may be rescinded when made without such consent as is required in a contract, or with an imperfect knowledge of the material facts of the…
- § 2315 An agent has such authority as the principal, actually or ostensibly, confers upon him.
- § 2316 Actual authority is such as a principal intentionally confers upon the agent, or intentionally, or by want of ordinary care, allows the agent to believe…
- § 2317 Ostensible authority is such as a principal, intentionally or by want of ordinary care, causes or allows a third person to believe the agent to possess.
- § 2318 Every agent has actually such authority as is defined by this Title, unless specially deprived thereof by his principal, and has even then such authority…
- § 2319 An agent has authority: 1. To do everything necessary or proper and usual, in the ordinary course of business, for effecting the purpose of his agency; and, 2.…
- § 2320 An agent has power to disobey instructions in dealing with the subject of the agency, in cases where it is clearly for the interest of his principal that he…
- § 2321 When an authority is given partly in general and partly in specific terms, the general authority gives no higher powers than those specifically mentioned.
- § 2322 An authority expressed in general terms, however broad, does not authorize an agent to do any of the following: (a) Act in the agent’s own name, unless it is…
- § 2323 An authority to sell personal property includes authority to warrant the title of the principal, and the quality and quantity of the property.
- § 2324 An authority to sell and convey real property includes authority to give the usual convenants of warranty.
- § 2325 A general agent to sell, who is intrusted by the principal with the possession of the thing sold, has authority to receive the price.
- § 2326 A special agent to sell has authority to receive the price on delivery of the thing sold, but not afterwards.