Lawgist226Enforcement and consequences of agent's contracts
Contracts entered into through an agent, and obligations arising from acts done by an agent, may be enforced in the same manner, and will have the same legal consequences, as if the contracts had been entered into and the acts done by the principal in person.
Illustrations
(a) A buys goods from B, knowing that he is an agent for their sale, but not knowing who is the principal. B's principal is the person entitled to claim from A the price of the goods, and A cannot, in a. suit by the principal, set-off against that claim a debt due to himself from B.
(b) A, being B's agent with authority to receive money on his behalf, receives from C a sum of money due to B. C is discharged of his obligation to pay the sum in question to B.
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- 226 Enforcement and consequences of agent's contracts
- 227 Principal how far bound, when agent exceeds authority
- 228 Principal not bound when excess of agent's authority is not separable
- 229 Consequences of notice given to agent
- 230 Agent cannot personally enforce, nor be bound by, contracts on behalf of principal
- 231 Rights of parties to a contract made by agent not disclosed
- 232 Performance of contract with agent supposed to be principal
- 233 Right of person dealing with agent personally liable
- 234 Consequence of inducing agent or principal to act on belief that principal or agent will be held exclusively liable
- 235 Liability of pretended agent
- 236 Person falsely contracting as agent, not entitled to performance
- 237 Liability of principal inducing belief that agent's unauthorized acts were authorized
- 238 Effect, on agreement, of misrepresentation or fraud by agent
