2021 Georgia Code
Title 10 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 - Agency
Article 3 - Rights and Liabilities of Principal to Third Persons
§ 10-6-50. Scope of Agent's Authority; Effect of Private Instructions; Dealing With Special Agent
The agent's authority shall be construed to include all necessary and usual means for effectually executing it. Private instructions or limitations not known to persons dealing with a general agent shall not affect them. In special agencies for a particular purpose, persons dealing with the agent should examine his authority.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2174; Code 1868, § 2170; Code 1873, § 2196; Code 1882, § 2196; Civil Code 1895, § 3023; Civil Code 1910, § 3595; Code 1933, § 4-301.)
Law reviews.- For article surveying the law in Georgia on admissions, see 8 Mercer L. Rev. 252 (1957).
JUDICIAL DECISIONSANALYSIS
- General Consideration
- Scope of Authority
- Instructions or Limitations on Authority
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Agency, §§ 64 et seq., 287 et seq.
7 Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms, Conspiracy, § 1.
C.J.S.- 2A C.J.S., Agency, §§ 139, 164, 165, 162.
ALR.
- Authority of agent to assent to account stated, 2 A.L.R. 71.
Authority, or apparent authority, of agent to receive payment for commodities which he has authority, or apparent authority, to sell, or for which he is authorized, or apparently authorized, to find a market, 8 A.L.R. 203; 105 A.L.R. 718.
Implied authority of servant or agent to bind employer for services of undertaker or other funeral expenses, 29 A.L.R. 457.
Liability of undisclosed principal on sealed contract, 32 A.L.R. 162.
Right of purchaser from agent or dealer in possession of article for purpose of demonstration or solicitation, without actual authority to sell, 57 A.L.R. 393.
Authority of claim agent as regards terms or condition of settlement, 87 A.L.R. 1277.
Power of sale as including power to mortgage, 92 A.L.R. 882.
Agent's authority to collect or receive payment as including implied, apparent, or ostensible authority to do so before maturity of obligations, 100 A.L.R. 389.
Implied, apparent or ostensible, and presumed authority of bank cashier to surrender or waive some right of bank, 108 A.L.R. 713.
Sole actor doctrine where officer or agent of corporation acting adversely to it is its sole representative in the transaction, 111 A.L.R. 665.
Status of gasoline and oil distributor or dealer as agent, employee, independent contractor, or independent dealer as regards responsibility for injury to person or damage to property, 116 A.L.R. 457, 83 A.L.R.2d 1282.
Agent's disregard of principal's instructions where power coupled with an interest, 162 A.L.R. 1182.
Doctrine of apparent authority as applicable where relationship is that of master and servant, 2 A.L.R.2d 406.
Authority of agent to make payment on behalf of principal, as regards statute of limitations, 31 A.L.R.2d 139.
Agent's authority to agree contemporaneously with sale to repurchase or resell or for return of personal property, 34 A.L.R.2d 510.
Power of real estate broker to execute contract of sale in behalf of principal, 43 A.L.R.2d 1014.
Implied or apparent authority of agent to purchase or order goods or merchandise, 55 A.L.R.2d 6.
Authority of agent to borrow money for principal, 55 A.L.R.2d 1215.
Liability of auctioneer or clerk to buyer as to title, condition, or quality of property sold, 80 A.L.R.2d 1237.
Agent's authority to execute warrant of attorney to confess judgment against principal, 92 A.L.R.2d 952.
Physician giving medical examination to insurance applicant as agent of insured or of insurer, 94 A.L.R.2d 1389.
Doctrine of apparent authority as applied to agent of municipality, 77 A.L.R.3d 925.
