The agent’s authority shall be construed to include all necessary and usual means for effectually executing it. Private instructions or limitations not known to persons dealing with a general agent shall not affect them. In special agencies for a particular purpose, persons dealing with the agent should examine his authority.
History. Orig. Code 1863, § 2174; Code 1868, § 2170; Code 1873, § 2196; Code 1882, § 2196; Civil Code 1895, § 3023; Civil Code 1910, § 3595; Code 1933, § 4-301.
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For article surveying the law in Georgia on admissions, see 8 Mercer L. Rev. 252 (1957).