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Section 193 Contract Act — Agent’s responsibility for sub-agent appointed without authority

The Indian Contract Act, 1872 · Official PDF page 44

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193. Agent’s responsibility for sub-agent appointed without authority.—Where an agent, without having authority to do so, has appointed a person to act as a sub -agent, the agent stands towards such person in the relation of a principal to an agent, and is responsible for his acts both to the principal and to third persons; the principal is not represented , by or responsible for the acts of the person so employed, nor is that person responsible to the principal.

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