28-10-407. Statutory exceptions to general authority. An authority expressed in general terms, however broad, does not authorize an agent to:
     (1) act in his own name unless it is the usual course of business to do so;
     (2) define the scope of his agency; or
     (3) do any act which a trustee is forbidden to do by Title 72, chapter 34.

     History: En. Sec. 3098, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5437, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7952, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 2322; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1240; re-en. Sec. 7952, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 2-129.