 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 978 pages
...to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent bona fide adopts ' one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate the act as unauthorised, because he meant the order to be read in the other sense of which it is equally capable.... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 680 pages
...as to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent bonafide adopts one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate the act as unauthorised because he meant the order to be read in another sense of which it is equally capable.... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 516 pages
...susceptible of two different meaji. ings, and the agent bond fide adopts one of them and acts upon u, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate the act as unauthorised because he meant the instructions or orders to bpreauin tin, other sense of which it is... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Sales - 1877 - 984 pages
...as to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent bona fide adopts one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate...the other sense, of which it is equally capable." (i) § 591. Sometimes the sale of a cargo is made by bill of lading, Sale of and the condition imposed... | |
 | Edmund Story-Maskelyne, Cecil Clare Marston Dale - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 726 pages
...as to be susceptible of two different meanings and the agent bonu fide adopts one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate the act as unauthorised because he meant the order to be road in another sense of which it is equally capable.... | |
 | William Evans - Agency (Law) - 1879 - 802 pages
...as to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent oond fide adopts one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate the act as authorized because he meant the instructions or orders to be read in the other sense of which they... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - Common law - 1880 - 800 pages
...different meanings, and the agent bona fide adopts one of them, and acts upon it, the principal cannot repudiate the act as unauthorized, because he meant the order to be read in the other sense. The principal must bear the loss arising from his own indistinctness of expression. (Ireland v. Livingston,... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Les Salles-sur-Verdon (France) - 1881 - 1076 pages
...as to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent bona fide adopts one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate...the other sense, of which it is equally capable." (£) § 591. Sometimes the sale of a cargo is made by bill of lading, Sale of and the condition imposed... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Agency (Law) - 1881 - 818 pages
...as to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent bond fide adopts one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate the act as unauthorised because he meant the order to be read in the other sense of which it is equally capable.... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Contracts - 1882 - 688 pages
...as to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent bona fide adopts one of them and acts upon it, it is not competent to the principal to repudiate the act as unanthorized, becanse he meant it to be read in the other sense, of which it is equally capable."2... | |
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Now it appears to me that if a principal gives an order to an agent in such uncertain terms as to be susceptible of two different meanings, and the agent... 
