Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6. AGENCY · Article 2. RELATIONS BETWEEN PRINCIPAL AND AGENT

10-6-24. Sale or purchase to self prohibited.

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Without the express consent of the principal after a full knowledge of all the facts, an agent employed to sell may not himself be the purchaser; and an agent to buy may not himself be the seller.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2164; Code 1868, § 2160; Code 1873, § 2186; Code 1882, § 2186; Civil Code 1895, § 3010; Civil Code 1910, § 3582; Code 1933, § 4-204.

Law reviews

For article surveying important general legal principles of municipal and county government purchasing and contracting in Georgia, see 16 Mercer L. Rev. 371 (1965).

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