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2011 California Code
Civil Code
DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427 - 3272.9]
ARTICLE 2. Authority of Agents
Section 2306


CA Civ Code § 2306 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

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 fraud upon the principal.

(Enacted 1872.)

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