 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...well-established rule of law by Tindal, CJ, in delivering the judgment of the Court, that an act done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently *ratiL -" fied by him. In this case, the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his detriment... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 692 pages
...complete retroactive effect, (b) It may be laid down as a well known rule of law, that an act done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently adopted and ratified by him. In this case, the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1854 - 622 pages
...well-established rule of law by Tindal, CJ, in delivering the judgment of the Court, that an act done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...other person, though without any precedent authority P6801 wnatever> becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently *ratified by him. In this case, the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1855 - 1120 pages
...ТЛАВПЛТТ It is, indeed, an established rule, that an act done for another by a °P рГь.ХС1" Person not: assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, ^r^-^, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 962 pages
...Pickersgill (/).] The rule is thus stated by Tindal, CJ, in Wilson v. Tumman (g): "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... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 966 pages
...Hill's NYR 133. Owinga v. Hull, 8 Pet. R. 608. Paley on Agency, Dunlap's ed. p. 171, n. (o.) An act done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...other person, though without any precedent authority, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him. Wilson r. Tnmman, 6 M. & 0. R. 242.... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 568 pages
...G. 236, 242 (ECLR vol. 40), 6 Scott NR 894, 904, where that learned judge says: " 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... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1861 - 874 pages
...seizure was to A.'s use; it was held, that A. was not a joint trespasser with B. (a). That an act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known or well established law. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his detriment... | |
 | Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1112 pages
...action was brought. But in Wilson v. Tumman (b), it is distinctly laid down : — "That an act done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...bound by the act, whether it be for his detriment or advantage, and whether it be founded on a tort or a contract, 1862. to the same extent as by, and with... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1058 pages
...action was brought. But in Wilson v. Tumman (It), it is distinctly laid down : — "That an act done /or another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...bound by the act, whether it be for his detriment or advantage, and whether it be founded on a tort or a contract, 1862. *o the same extent as by, and with... | |
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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... 
