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Cal. Civ. Code § 2297

Definition of Agency

Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Cignetti v. American Trust Co. (1956)

Most recently applied in Castillo v. Glenair, Inc. (April 2018)

Enacted 1872.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

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.

An agent for a particular act or transaction is called a special agent. All others are general agents.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.