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158. 51 Am. Dec. 59; North Point, etc., Co. V. Utah Canal Co., 16

Utah 246, 40 L. R. A. 851; Union School Furniture Co. v. School

District, 50 Kans. 727, 20 L. R. A. 136; Commercial Electric L. & P.

Co. v. Tacoma, 20 Wash. 288, 72 Am. St. Rep. 103.

§ 81. Infants— Married women.— It^has been

said that an infant can not ratify, but t h e true rule

Is that both infants, and married women under the mod-

ern statutes, may ratify such acts and, of course, surh

only as they are competent to authorize.

See Armitage v. Widoe, 36 Mich. 124; Drury v. Foster, 2 Wall, 24,

Agency Cases, 120; Rowell v. Klein, 44 Ind. 290; McLaren v. Hall,

26 Iowa, 297, Cas. Ag. 77; Reed V. Morton, 24 Neb. 760, 40 n. W.

Rep. 282, 1 L. R. A. 736; MacFarland v. Heim, 127 Mo. 327, 29 S. W.

Rep. 1030, 48 Am. St. Rep. 629.

§82. Agent.— An agent cannot ratify his own

act^ nor caflj⢠"' +⢠jflflt T PTlfa ra titT„tte apt nfl ""

fellow agent: but pne afient may ratify ffrg fl^ftf *"•

other agent of the same uriminal, where the agent who

ratifies has himself general authority to do the act rat-

ified.

See Ironwood Store Co. v. Harrison, 75 Mich. 197, Cas. Ag. 124.

The same rule is expressed in a different way when It is saii

"An agent can in some cases ratify an act done by a sub-agent by

adopting it as his own, but such ratification will not bind the prin-

cipal unless it is an act which was within the agent's authority to

do." Wright on Principal and Agent (2d ed.), 54.

48 Of authority by ratification. [в§ 8s.

4. Conditions of Ratification-.

§ S3. What conditions must exist. — In order to

effect a ratification, the following conditions must

exist :

a. The person ratifying must have the present abil-

Ity to do the act himself or to authorize it to be done.

b. The person for whom the act was done must have

been identified or capable of being identified. In other

words, the person who did the act must have acted for

the particular person ratifying or, if he did net know

who the particular person was, then for persons of his

description. *

See Foster v. Bates, 12 M. & W. 225, Agency Cases, 127.

c. The act must have been done, by the person act-

ing, as agent and not on his own account. That is, the

person who did the act must at the time not only have

intended to act on behalf of the person ratifying, but

it seems also to be necessary that he should then have

professed to act for a principal, though it is not neces-

sary that he should have disclosed who the principal

was.

See the very late case of Keighley v. Durant [1901] App. Cas.

240, overruling Durant v. Roberts [1900], 1 Q. B. 629; Mitchell v.

Minnesota Fire Ass'n, 48 Minn. 278, 51 N. W. Rep. 608; Ferris v.

Snow, — Mich. — , 90 N. W. Rep. 850, wherein it is held that it is

necessary that he should have professed to act as agent. It seems,

moreover, to be sufficient that he professed to act as agent, though

he had a fraudulent purpose to really take the benefit on his own

account. In re Tiedeman [1899], 2 Q. B. Div. 66. See also Ham-

lin v. Sears, 82 N. Y. 327, Agency Cases, 136.

On the other hand, in Hayward v. Langmaid [1902], — Mass. — ,

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