 | Sir William Reynell Anson - Agency (Law) - 1895 - 456 pages
...principal, Wllsou v. Tumman, 6 M. & O. 24iZ. Watson \. Swann, 11C. B., NS 769. [*335] ' An act done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subseqnently ratified by him. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1896 - 806 pages
...assenting to the agent's contract or act (s). ]t is, indeed, an established rule, that an act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...act of the principal if subsequently ratified by him (a) within a rea(?) Farrer v. Lacy Hartland <t Co. Stark. 226. (1885), 31 Oh. D. 42, CA (u) Coctran... | |
 | Emerson E. Ballard, Tilghman Ethan Ballard - Real property - 1897
...she subsequently fully ratified them by accepting and retaining the benefit of them. ' An act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the actof the principal, if subsequently ratified by him. * * * In that case the principal is bound by... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900
...Wilson v. Tumman, 6 Man. & Gr. (46 Eng. CLR) 236, states the rule more fully thus : " That an act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well-established rule of law. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his... | |
 | Roger Gresley Woodyatt - Agency - 1900 - 196 pages
...& 6 Scott. NR 894; here Tindal, CJ, delivering the judgment of the Court, said; " That an act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well-established rule of law. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1900 - 749 pages
...contract, the party knows that all has been done according to his wishes (/«)• " That an act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...principal if subsequently ratified by him, is the kno\ra and well-established rule of law. In that case, Hie principal is bound by the act, whether it... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Tiffany - Agency (Law) - 1903 - 609 pages
...Rawl(ngs v. Neul, 12li NC 271, 35 SE 597. In Wilson v. Tumman,8 Tindal, CJ, said: "That an act done, for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well-established rule of law. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Administrators - 1903
...consequently, those acts which he could have contracted to do by an agent in the first instance."2 An act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him. «« 12 Barb. (NY) 456 (1852). no 105 NY 653 (1887); lO6 Mass. 334 '««55 11l. 475 (1870); 121 Ind.... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904
...think, under the authorities, and upon the reason of the thing itself, that it is not. That an act done, for another, by a person, not assuming to act for...for his detriment or his advantage, and whether it be founded [ *243 ] on a tort or a contract, to the same extent as by, *and with all the consequences... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark - Contracts - 1904 - 693 pages
...17 Am. St Rep. 643; Tier v. Lampson, 35 Vt. 179, 82 Am. Dec. 034. is Pickering v. Busk, 15 East, 38. another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well-established rule of law. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his... | |
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That an act done for another, by a person, not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well established... 
