An agency may be created, and an authority may be conferred, by a precedent authorization or a subsequent ratification.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2307
Authority of Agents
Applied in 34 court decisions — leading case 8 Cal. 3d 67 - Rakestraw v. Rodrigues (1972)
Most recently applied in Boling v. Public Employment Relations Board (April 2017)
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.