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ostensible agent

ostensible agent see agent

authority

not in reality been granted called also authority by estoppel ostensible authority NOTE: A principal is bound by the acts of … to act granted by a principal to his or her agent actual authority : the authority that a principal in reality

agent

answering questions under cross-examination on behalf of the business entity ostensible agent : an agent acting under an agency by estoppel special

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agency

create an agency relationship compare express agency in this entry ostensible agency : agency by estoppel in this entry special agency … bound by and liable for acts of his or her agent that are within the scope of the agency. ac·tu·al agency

Marriage

the ministration of a person in the church, who is ostensibly in holy orders and is not known or suspected to … party must go through the ceremony, consenting as a free agent without fraud or duress, see Scott v. Sebright, (1886) 12

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