An agent must use ordinary diligence to keep his principal informed of his acts in the course of the agency.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2020
Agents
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 215 Cal. App. 2d 667 - Spaziani v. Millar (1963)
Most recently applied in State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Superior Court (December 1989)
Enacted 1872.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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