California Code
PART 4 - OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS
TITLE 9 - AGENCY

CHAPTER 1 - Agency in General

ARTICLE 1 - Definition of Agency

Section 2295. - 2295. An agent is one who represents another, called the...

Section 2296. - 2296. Any person having capacity to contract may appoint an...

Section 2297. - 2297. An agent for a particular act or transaction is...

Section 2298. - 2298. An agency is either actual or ostensible. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 2299. - 2299. An agency is actual when the agent is really...

Section 2300. - 2300. An agency is ostensible when the principal intentionally, or...

ARTICLE 2 - Authority of Agents

Section 2304. - 2304. An agent may be authorized to do any acts...

Section 2305. - 2305. Every act which, according to this Code, may be...

Section 2306. - 2306. An agent can never have authority, either actual or...

Section 2307. - 2307. An agency may be created, and an authority may...

Section 2308. - 2308. A consideration is not necessary to make an authority,...

Section 2309. - 2309. An oral authorization is sufficient for any purpose, except...

Section 2310. - 2310. A ratification can be made only in the manner...

Section 2311. - 2311. Ratification of part of an indivisible transaction is a...

Section 2312. - 2312. A ratification is not valid unless, at the time...

Section 2313. - 2313. No unauthorized act can be made valid, retroactively, to...

Section 2314. - 2314. A ratification may be rescinded when made without such...

Section 2315. - 2315. An agent has such authority as the principal, actually...

Section 2316. - 2316. Actual authority is such as a principal intentionally confers...

Section 2317. - 2317. Ostensible authority is such as a principal, intentionally or...

Section 2318. - 2318. Every agent has actually such authority as is defined...

Section 2319. - 2319. An agent has authority: 1. To do everything necessary...

Section 2320. - 2320. An agent has power to disobey instructions in dealing...

Section 2321. - 2321. When an authority is given partly in general and...

Section 2322. - 2322. An authority expressed in general terms, however broad, does...

Section 2323. - 2323. An authority to sell personal property includes authority to...

Section 2324. - 2324. An authority to sell and convey real property includes...

Section 2325. - 2325. A general agent to sell, who is intrusted by...

Section 2326. - 2326. A special agent to sell has authority to receive...

ARTICLE 3 - Mutual Obligations of Principals and Third Persons

Section 2330. - 2330. An agent represents his principal for all purposes within...

Section 2331. - 2331. A principal is bound by an incomplete execution of...

Section 2332. - 2332. As against a principal, both principal and agent are...

Section 2333. - 2333. When an agent exceeds his authority, his principal is...

Section 2334. - 2334. A principal is bound by acts of his agent,...

Section 2335. - 2335. If exclusive credit is given to an agent by...

Section 2336. - 2336. One who deals with an agent without knowing or...

Section 2337. - 2337. An instrument within the scope of his authority by...

Section 2338. - 2338. Unless required by or under the authority of law...

Section 2339. - 2339. A principal is responsible for no other wrongs committed...

ARTICLE 4 - Obligations of Agents to Third Persons

Section 2342. - 2342. One who assumes to act as an agent thereby...

Section 2343. - 2343. One who assumes to act as an agent is...

Section 2344. - 2344. If an agent receives anything for the benefit of...

Section 2345. - 2345. The provisions of this Article are subject to the...

ARTICLE 5 - Delegation of Agency

Section 2349. - 2349. An agent, unless specially forbidden by his principal to...

Section 2350. - 2350. If an agent employs a sub-agent without authority, the...

Section 2351. - 2351. A sub-agent, lawfully appointed, represents the principal in like...

ARTICLE 6 - Termination of Agency

Section 2355. - 2355. An agency is terminated, as to every person having...

Section 2356. - 2356. (a) Unless the power of an agent is coupled...

Section 2357. - 2357. For the purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 2356,...

CHAPTER 2 - Particular Agencies

ARTICLE 1 - Auctioneers

Section 2362. - 2362. An auctioneer, in the absence of special authorization or...

Section 2363. - 2363. An auctioneer has authority from a bidder at the...

ARTICLE 2 - Factors

Section 2367. - 2367. A factor is an agent, as defined by Section...

Section 2368. - 2368. In addition to the authority of agents in general,...

Section 2369. - 2369. A factor has ostensible authority to deal with the...

ARTICLE 3 - Powers of Attorney Under Probate Code

Section 2400. - 2400. Powers of attorney are governed by the Power of...