The obligation arising in such a case is well expressed by saying that a person, professing to contract as agent for another, impliedly. if not expressly, undertakes to or promises the person who enters into such contract, upon the faith of the professed... The Canadian Law Times - Page 2431911Full view - About this book
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby - 1843 - 842 pages
...knowledge of both contracting parties. If, then, the true principle derivable from the cases is, that there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the agent, in order to make him personally liable on a contract made in the name of his principal, it will follow that the agent is... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 pages
...should be personally liable for its consequences. The true principle derivable from the cases is, that there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the agent in order to make him personally liable on a contract made in the name of his principal ; in all of them, it will be found,... | |
| William Paley - 1847 - 732 pages
...knowledge of both contracting parties. If then, the true principle derivable from the cases is, that there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the agent in order to make him personally liable on a contract made in the name of his principal, it will follow that the agent is... | |
| Charles Manley Smith - 1852 - 638 pages
...(i). nut maybe In order to make a servant liable personally on a contract made in his master's name, there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the servant (c). Thus, if he do not possess authority from his master to contract in his name, or, which... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1855 - 590 pages
...great difficulty in understanding that case.] The ground upon which the decision proceeded was, that " there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the agent, in order to make him personally liable on a contract made in the name of his principal." In Blades v. Free, 9 B. & C. 167... | |
| Theophilus Parsons - 1857 - 936 pages
...decision, but the court say afterwards, " If, then, the true principle derivable from the cases is, that there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the agent, in order to make him personally liable on a contract made in the name of his principal, it will follow that the agent is... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - 1870 - 582 pages
...knowledge of both contracting parties. If then the true principle derivable from the cases, is that there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the agent in order to make him personally liable on a contract made in the name of his principal, it will follow that the agent is... | |
| John Innes Clark Hare - 1871 - 952 pages
...Alderson stated that the true principle derivable from the cases is, that there must be some wrongf or omission of right, on the part of the agent, in order to make him personally liable on a contract made in the name of the principal, and that in all cases in which the... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1873 - 770 pages
...the person who enters into such contract upon the faith of the professed agent being duly authorized, that the authority which he professes to have does in point of fact exist." That is followed by Richardson v. Williamson (3) ; and I do not think that that rule is at all interfered... | |
| Conway Robinson - 1858 - 804 pages
...equally within the knowledge of both contracting parties. Considering the true principle to be that there must be some wrong or omission of right on the part of the agent to make him personally liable ou a contract made in the name of his principal, the court came to the... | |
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