Exam 14: Agency and the Employment Relationship

An implied ratification takes place when the principal behaves as if she has the intention of ratifying an unauthorized agreement.

Which of the four general factors which bear upon whether a master-servant relationship exists is determinative:

An agency can be ended upon reasonable notice by:

When a principal creates an impression of authority in an agent that leads a third party to conclude that the agent has authority to act for the principal, the agent is said to have:

An agency ends without any action by the principal or the agent through:

If a hurricane is coming and you spend $800 to buy supplies to protect your neighbor's house against storm damage, when they are gone and cannot be reached, you may have created an agency by operation of law.

An agency coupled with an interest is created:

Because of the duty to inform, an agent must:

Operation of law provides agents with the authority to act beyond the authority granted by the principal when:

If a payment amount is not specified in the agency agreement, a principal's duty to compensate means that the principal must pay the agent:

When an agent is allowed to delegate duties to other agents, the other agents are subagents who assist the agent.

In Guz v. Bechtel National, Guz was fired by Bechtel after 22 years of service. The company eliminated his position despite his good performance and no financial problems in the company. The California high court held that Guz could:

When an agent has the power to do whatever is reasonable and customary to carry out the agency purpose, the agent has implied authority.

If a company manager expressly tells an employee that she could not be fired without good cause, but then fires her for no particular cause, the employee may have a suit for wrongful termination most likely based on the theory of:

Suppose a car dealership hires people to sell cars to customers at the dealership. The people who are hired are most likely to be:

In Town Center Shopping Center v. Premier Mortgage, a lease for office space, made by a manager of a mortgage company, was negated by the courts because the leasing company should have known that a person in the position of the manager would not have such authority.

In France v. Southern Equipment Co., where France, after falling off a roof, sued Southern Equipment Co. who had employed Quality Metal Roof, a company that contracted with France's employer, Royalty Builders, to build them a new metal roof for exposing him to the inherently dangerous job of roofing, the appeals court held that there are four general factors that bear upon whether a master-servant relationship exists. Which of the following is one of those factors:

Scott is an agent for Lee and his duties require him to fly to Chicago from Cleveland. Scott gets up late and misses his flight to Chicago so he has to buy a second plane ticket. As principal, Lee:

The scope of an agent's authority is determined from the:

A(n) ____ is one whose identity is known by the third party at the time a contract is entered into with an agent.