Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 28. CONTRACTS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 10. AGENCY

Part 4. Authority of Agent

Actual Authority Defined

28-10-402. Actual authority defined. Actual authority is authority that the principal intentionally confers upon the agent or intentionally or by want of ordinary care allows the agent to believe that the agent possesses.

History: En. Sec. 3092, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5431, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7946, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 2316; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1234; re-en. Sec. 7946, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 2-123; amd. Sec. 797, Ch. 56, L. 2009.