Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

10-6-61. Effect of willful trespass by agent.

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The principal shall not be liable for the willful trespass of his agent unless done by his command or assented to by him.

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, § 2181; Code 1868, § 2177; Code 1873, § 2203; Code 1882, § 2203; Civil Code 1895, § 3031; Civil Code 1910, § 3603; Code 1933, § 4-312.

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For note discussing the doctrine of respondeat superior, see 2 Ga. St. B. J. 478 (1966).

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