Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6. AGENCY · Article 3. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF PRINCIPAL TO THIRD PERSONS

10-6-50. Scope of authority; general and special agents.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

The agent’s authority shall be construed to include all necessary and usual means for effectually executing it. Private instructions or limitations not known to persons dealing with a general agent shall not affect them. In special agencies for a particular purpose, persons dealing with the agent should examine his authority.

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, § 2174; Code 1868, § 2170; Code 1873, § 2196; Code 1882, § 2196; Civil Code 1895, § 3023; Civil Code 1910, § 3595; Code 1933, § 4-301.

Law reviews

For article surveying the law in Georgia on admissions, see 8 Mercer L. Rev. 252 (1957).

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