The Indian Contract Act

Enforcement and consequences of agent's contracts

Principal how far bound, when agent exceeds authority

Principal not bound when excess of agent's authority is not separable

Consequences of notice given to agent

Agent cannot personally enforce, nor be bound by, contracts on behalf of principal

Rights of parties to a contract made by agent not disclosed

Performance of contract with agent supposed to be principal

Right of person dealing with agent personally liable

Consequence of inducing agent or principal to act on belief that principal or agent will be held exclusively liable

Liability of pretended agent

Person falsely contracting as agent, not entitled to performance

Liability of principal inducing belief that agent's unauthorized acts were authorized

Effect, on agreement, of misrepresentation or fraud by agent


Effect of agency on contracts with third persons


Where an agent
does more than he is authorized to do, and what he does beyond the scope of his authority cannot be
separated from what is within it, the principal is not bound to recognize the transaction.

Illustration

A authorizes B to buy 500 sheep for him. B buys 500 sheep and 200 lambs for one sum of 6,000 rupees. A may repudiate
the whole transaction.

LAWGIST

# 228 Principal not bound when excess of agent's authority is not separable