 | Law - 1862 - 720 pages
...the law is very distinctly laid down at p. 242 in the report in 6 Man. and G., ' That an act done, for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself,...principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the well-known and well-established rule of law. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether... | |
 | Joseph Story - Agency (Law) - 1863 - 704 pages
...Tumman, 6 Mann. & Grang. 236. On this occasion Lord Chief Justice Tindall said : " That an act done, for another, by a person, not assuming to act for...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 584 pages
...subsequent ratification made him liable, as a trespasser, for the original seizure. 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 on a tort or a contract, to the same extent as by, *2431 * anc ' w ^ a ^ * ne consequences... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 626 pages
...by way of ratification. Wilson v. Tumman, 46 ECL 235. In that case the Court say, "that an act done for another, by a perso-n not assuming to act for...if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and established rule of the law. In that case the principal is bound by the act, whether it be for his... | |
 | Law - 1864 - 572 pages
...ratified by him. boni Chief Justice Tindal so lays down the rale in Wilson ч. Titmman, " that an act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself, but fur euch other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, homines the act of the principal,... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1865 - 566 pages
...learned Judge says: "That an act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself, bin for such other person, though without any precedent...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... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Erasmus Peshine Smith, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 644 pages
...view of the plaintiff's act, in receiving the note and commencing suit thereon. When an act is done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself...person, though without any precedent authority whatever, it becomes the act of the principal if subsequently ratified by him. In that case the principal is... | |
 | William Brown - Entail - 1869 - 900 pages
...& R. 432. (g) Sect. 28. (p) Trulock v. Robey, 12 Sim. (A) Sect. 40. 402. (1) Sect. 42. An act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him ( g) : for if an act be done by a person as agent, it is in general immaterial whether the authority... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 462 pages
...Tumman, 6 M. & S. 236. Tindal, CJ, in this case, says the rule is " well settled " that an " act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself,...of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him." But, although the cases are numerous and decisive as to this point, they are not so as to the case... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 530 pages
...an essential part of that proposition that the act upon which the ratification operates must be done by a person "not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person." Saundernan v. (rrlffitlis, 5 B. & C. flOll, was an action by A., his wife, and B., on an agreement... | |
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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... 
