193: Agent’s responsibility for sub-agent appointed without authority
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Where an agent, without having authority to do so, has appointed a person to act as a sub-agent, the agent stands towards such person in the relation of a principal to an agent, and is responsible for his acts both to the principal and to third persons; the principal is not represented by or responsible for the acts of the person so employed, nor is that person responsible to the principal.
Related sections
192: Representation of principal by sub-agent properly appointed194: Relation between principal and person duly appointed by agent to act in business of agency191: “Sub-agent” defined195: Agent’s duty in naming such person190: When agent cannot delegate196: Right of person as to acts done for him without his authority
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