Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 28. CONTRACTS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 10. AGENCY

Part 4. Authority of Agent

No Authority To Defraud Principal

28-10-409. No authority to defraud principal. An agent can never have authority, either actual or ostensible, to do an act that is and is known or suspected by the person with whom the agent deals to be a fraud upon the principal.

History: En. Sec. 3082, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5421, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7936, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 2306; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1224; re-en. Sec. 7936, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 2-113; amd. Sec. 802, Ch. 56, L. 2009.