PUBLISHED BY ROBERT E. PETERSON,

NORTH-WEST CORNER OF FIFTH AND ARCH STREETS.

1851.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

JOHN BOUVIER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

MOY WE

DEACON & PETERSON, PRINTERS, 66 SOUTH THIRD STREET.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

BOOK II.-OF THINGS.

C. 10. Of agency, 1.

S. 1. Of the principal, 2.

1. Who may be a principal, 2.

2. Of the number of principals, 2.

S. 2. Of the agent, 3.

1. Who may be an agent, 3.

§ 2. Of the number of agents, 4.

3. Of the kinds of agents, 5.

A. 1. Of attorneys at law, 5.

A. 2. Of attorneys in fact, 6.

1 Of auctioneers, 6.

2. Of brokers, 7.

3. Of clerks, 9.

4. Of factors, 9.

5. Of ships' husbands, 10.

6. Of masters of ships, 10.

7. Of partners, 11.

8 Of public agents, 11.

§ 4. Of the mode of appointing an agent, 12.

A. 1. Of express appointment, 12.

A. 2. Of implied appointment, 13.

§ 5. Of the authority of the agent, 14.

A. 1. General and special authority, 14.

A. 2. Of the lawfulness and unlawfulness of the authority, 17.

A. 3. Of a naked authority and an authority coupled with an in-

terest, 18.

A. 4. Of the execution of the authority, 18.

1. By whom the authority must be executed, 19.

2. How the authority is to be executed, 19.

3. Within what time the authority must be executed, 21.

A. 5 Of the ratification of the agent's acts, 21.

1. Nature of the ratification, 21.

2. By what acts the ratification may be made, 22.

3. Of the effects of ratification, 24.

1. When the party had no authority to act, 24.

2. When the agent has exceeded his authority, 26.

3. What acts void or voidable may be ratified, 27.

4 Of the time and extent of the ratification, 27.

S. 3. Of the rights of the principal, 28.

§ 1. Of the principal's rights against the agent, 28.

§ 2. Of the principal's rights against third persons, 29.