28-10-407. Statutory exceptions to general authority.
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 the agent's own name unless it is the usual course of business to do so;
(2) define the scope of the agency; or
(3) do any act that 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; amd. Sec. 800, Ch. 56, L. 2009.