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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6. AGENCY · Article 4. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF AGENT AS TO THIRD PERSONS

10-6-84. Enforcement of contract after authority exceeded.

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

  1. When the agent shall exceed his authority so that the principal is not bound, the agent may not enforce the contract in his own name against the person with whom he deals unless the contract shall have been fully executed upon the part of the agent or the credit was originally given to the agent.

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, § 2192; Code 1868, § 2188; Code 1873, § 2214; Code 1882, § 2214; Civil Code 1895, § 3042; Civil Code 1910, § 3614; Code 1933, § 4-408.

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