Sections
23 entriesSection 2304Allows an agent to be authorized to perform any act the principal could perform, except acts to which the principal is bound…Section 2305Allows an act that the Code permits to be done by or to a person to instead be done by or to…Section 2306Bars an agent from having actual or ostensible authority to commit an act that is a fraud on the principal when the…Section 2307Allows an agency to be created, and authority to be conferred, through either authorization given before the relevant act or ratification given…Section 2308Establishes that consideration is unnecessary to make an authority binding on the principal, whether the authority is precedent or subsequent. The principal…Section 2309Allows oral authorization for any purpose, except authority to enter into a contract that law requires to be in writing. Requires that…Section 2310Limits ratification to the manner that would have been required to grant original authority for the ratified act. Allows ratification, when oral…Section 2311Sets ratification of part of an indivisible transaction to operate as ratification of the entire transaction. When the transaction cannot be divided,…Section 2312Requires a principal, at the time of ratification, to have the legal power to confer authority for the act being ratified. Bars…Section 2313Bars retroactive validation of an unauthorized act when doing so would prejudice third persons who have not consented. The rule protects third…Section 2314Allows a ratification to be rescinded when made without such consent as is required in a contract, or with an imperfect knowledge…Section 2315Defines an agent’s authority by what the principal actually or ostensibly confers on the agent. The agent therefore has the authority the…Section 2316Defines actual authority as authority the principal intentionally gives the agent or intentionally, or through lack of ordinary care, allows the agent…Section 2317Defines ostensible authority as authority that a principal, intentionally or through lack of ordinary care, causes or allows a third person to…Section 2318Establishes that an agent has the actual authority defined by the title unless the principal specially restricts it. Extends ostensible authority despite…Section 2319Establishes that but upon which his right to use his authority depends, and the truth of which cannot be determined by the…Section 2320Allows an agent to disobey instructions concerning the subject of the agency when doing so is clearly in the principal’s interest and…Section 2321Limits general language in an agent's authority when the authority also contains specific terms. Bars the general grant from giving the agent…Section 2322Limits even broadly worded general agency authority by barring an agent from acting in the agent's own name unless usual in the…Section 2323Allows an authority to sell personal property to include authority to warrant the principal’s title and to warrant the property’s quality and…Section 2324Extends authority to sell and convey real property to include authority to give the usual covenants of warranty. Treats the power to…Section 2325Allows a general selling agent entrusted by the principal with possession of the item being sold to receive the purchase price. Makes…Section 2326Allows a special agent authorized to sell property to receive the sale price when the item sold is delivered, but not afterward.…