An agent may be authorized to do any acts which his principal might do, except those to which the latter is bound to give his personal attention.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2304
Authority of Agents
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 198 Cal. App. 4th 256 - Fontenot v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2011)
Most recently applied in Kalnoki v. First American Trustee Servicing Solutions, LLC (February 2017)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.