agent's apparent authority
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That authority of an agent which, though not actually granted, the principal knowingly permits the agent to exercise, or which the principal holds him out as possessing.
In effect, an agent's apparent authority is, as to third persons dealing in good faith with the subject of his agency and entitled to rely upon such appearance, his real authority, and it may apply to a single transaction or a series of transactions. 3 Am J2d Ag § 73.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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