POLICY, PRACTICE & PUBLISHING LAW REPORTS, 3PLR
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AGENCY:- Principal and Agent – Contract by one professing to contract as Agent, but who has no existing Principal – Effect
CONTRACT:- Pre-incorporation agreements – Whether company competent to ratify agreements made on its behalf by agents purporting to act for it before its legal incorporation – Relevant considerations |
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KOFI SUNKERSETTE OBU V. A. STRAUSS AND CO. LD. |
AGENCY:- Principal and agent – Agency contract – Commission – Basis and rate left to discretion of principal – Claim for account and payment of commission – Whether Court incompetent to grant relief claimed |
AGENCY:- Rule that a person to whom an obligation is owed may demand it through an action – Rule that a plaintiff or a petitioner must be the one capable of demanding or claiming for a right or an obligation against a defendant – When a person not in a position to bring the action in person may do so by donating his right to institute the action to another person through a power of attorney – Need for the donee of the power in bringing the action to do so in the principal plaintiff’s or petitioner’s name – Whether donee can validly delegate his authority to a third party – Delegatus non potest delegare – How applied |
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