Unless otherwise provided in a written agreement, where a lessor, without knowledge of the death of or an adjudication of incapacity of the lessee, deals with his agent pursuant to a written power of attorney signed by the lessee, the transaction binds the lessee's estate and the lessee.
§ 58-11A-2 NMSA 1978
Effect of lessee's death or incapacity
Laws 1991, ch. 51, § 22.
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