N.D. Cent. Code § 3-03-03
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3-03-03. When ostensible authority binding
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3-03-03. When ostensible authority binding
A principal is bound by acts of the principal's agent under a merely ostensible authority to
those persons only who in good faith and without ordinary negligence have incurred a liability or
parted with value upon the faith thereof.
A principal is bound by acts of the principal's agent under a merely ostensible authority to
those persons only who in good faith and without ordinary negligence have incurred a liability or
parted with value upon the faith thereof.
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