 | George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...the principal intended to confer on him. The interests of the mercantile world require that he should bind his principal within the limits of the authority with which he has been apparently clothed by him in respect of the subject-matter of the sale. Where the commodity is sent in such a way, and to... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...cases limited to his actual authority, the reality of which is afterwards to be tried by the fact. It is clear, that he may bind his principal within...been apparently clothed by the principal in respect of the subject-matter; and there would be no safety in mercantile transactions if he could not. If... | |
 | John Eykyn Hovenden - Equity pleading and procedure - 1825 - 656 pages
...clear, Every general there would be no safety in mercantile transactions, if a general agent could not bind his principal, within the limits of the authority with which he ">t<|!»'biy given * to him: has been apparently clothed, by his employer, in respect of the subject... | |
 | Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 826 pages
...the principal intended to confer on him. The interests of the mercantile world require lhat he should bind his principal within the limits of the authority with which he has been apparently clothed in respect to the subject matter of the sale. (Long on Sales, 233. 15 East, 38.) In the case of The... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...restrictions of which the parties dealing with the agent are entirely ignorant. " It is clear that the agent may bind his principal within the limits of the authority with which he has been apparently clothed by the M Stubbing i. Heintz, 1 Peake, 66. 328. Whitehpnse v. Abber/ey, ib. 642. (A) Richardton v. Cartwright,... | |
 | William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 732 pages
...ordinary course of trade, it must be presumed that the apparent authority is the real authority ; and he may bind his principal within the limits of the...authority with which he has been apparently clothed with respect to the subject matter." (Pickering v. Busk, 15 East, 43.) And so it was said in another... | |
 | Phineas Pemberton Morris - Replevin - 1849 - 336 pages
...says:(l) "I fully subscribe to the. doctrine that an agent may bind his principal within the limits of an authority with which he has been apparently clothed by the principal in respect to the subject matter. If a principal send a commodity to a place where it is the ordinary business of the... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - Equity - 1853 - 566 pages
...ordinary course of business, it must be presumed, that the apparent is the real authority. The agent may bind his principal within the limits of the authority, with which he has been apparently clothed by his principal, in respect of the subject of the agency • and there would be no safety in dealing,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 728 pages
...Executive. It is well settled that an agent may bind his principal by his acts as well as his words, within the limits of the authority with which he has...the subject-matter, and there would be no safety in transactions if he could not. (Pickerings vs. Knst, 15 East, 43.) The agency proved, it is presumed... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Commercial law - 1860 - 934 pages
...cases limited to his actual authority, the reality of which is afterwards to be tried by the fact. It is clear that he may bind his principal within the limits of the authority with which he has teen apparently clothed by the principal in respect of the subjectmatter ; and there would be no safety... | |
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I cannot subscribe to the doctrine, that a broker's engagements are necessarily and in all cases limited to his actual authority, the reality of which is afterwards to be tried by the fact. It is clear that he may bind his principal within the limits... 
