KNEC Business Finance notes

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A enters into a contract with B for buying B’s motor car as agent of C with- , out C’s authority B repudiates the contract before C comes to know of it. C subsequently ratifies the contract and sues to enforce it. Is there a binding contract?

Ratification is retrospective, that is, the agency is taken to have come into effect from the moment the agent first acted, and not from the date of the principal’s ratification. This rule was illustrated by the decision in Bolton Partners Read More …