2025 Code of Georgia
Title 10 - Commerce and Trade (Chs. 1 — 15)
Chapter 6 - Agency (Arts. 1 — 7)
Article 2 - Relations Between Principal and Agent (§§ 10-6-20 — 10-6-39)
Annotations
Research References & Practice Aids
Cross references.Indemnification of corporate directors and officers, § 14-2-850 et seq.
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.Validity of factor’s pledge of his principal’s property, 14 A. L. R. 423.
Liability of third person for aiding agent or employee in breach of duty to principal or employer, 45 A. L. R. 1481.
Validity of contract negotiated by agent acting for both parties, 48 A. L. R. 917.
Liability of agent for acts or omissions of subagent, 61 A. L. R. 277.
Regulations, rules, custom, or usage of stock or produce exchange or of stock or produce broker as affecting customers, 79 A. L. R. 592.
Right as between two principals of common agent who misappropriates funds of one of them in order to make good misappropriation of funds of other, 86 A. L. R. 537.
Ratification by customer of stockbroker’s wrongful purchase or sale of securities on his account, or failure to comply with instructions, 87 A. L. R. 794.
Agent’s liability to principal on account of money or property received on latter’s account, as affected by his restoration of same to, or his application thereof for benefit of, third person, 98 A. L. R. 1429.
Right of one other than principal to repudiate transaction because of common agency unknown to principal, 147 A. L. R. 772.
Availability of equitable remedy of accounting between principal and agent, 3 A. L. R.2d 1310.
Rights of parties under oral agreement to buy or bid in land for another, 27 A. L. R.2d 1285.
Abstracter’s duty and liability to employer respecting matters to be included in abstract, 28 A. L. R.2d 891.
Power of real-estate broker to execute contract of sale in behalf of principal, 43 A. L. R.2d 1014.
Duty of real-estate broker to disclose identity of purchaser or lessee, 2 A. L. R.3d 1119.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 10
O. C. G. A. Title 10, Ch. 6
- § 10-6-20. Rights under agency for illegal purpose
- § 10-6-21. Extent of agent’s authority; liability for exceeding, violating, or disregarding instructions
- § 10-6-22. Required standard of care
- § 10-6-23. Instructions from multiple principals
- § 10-6-24. Sale or purchase to self prohibited
- § 10-6-25. Personal profit off principal's property prohibited
- § 10-6-26. Dispute of principal's title
- § 10-6-27. Principal's right of recovery
- § 10-6-28. Effect of bank failure
- § 10-6-29. Mingling goods
- § 10-6-30. Proper accounting required
- § 10-6-31. Commission and expenses
- § 10-6-32. Owner’s right to sell property placed with broker; broker’s right to commissions
- § 10-6-33. Method for revocation of agency; damages for unreasonable revocation
- § 10-6-34. Effect of death or disability on pledge of stock with power of attorney
- § 10-6-35. Effect of death on power of attorney by member of armed forces, seaman, or person on war service
- § 10-6-36. Effect of incompetency or incapacity of principal on power of attorney
- § 10-6-37. Action for wrongful discharge of agent before termination of contract
- § 10-6-38. Mitigation of damages for improper dismissal
- § 10-6-39. Liability of principal for injuries by other agents