 | Sandford Nevile, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir William Montagu Manning - 1834 - 904 pages
...principal may sue upon it; the defendant in the latter case being 1 entitled to be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had 1 been fhc contracting party. This rule is most frequently acted upon in sales by factors, agents,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1835 - 1218 pages
...principal may sue upon it ; the defendant in the latter case being entitled to be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party. This rule is most frequently acted upon in sales by factors, agents, or partners,... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1838 - 838 pages
...upon it ; the defendant, in the case where the principal sues, being entitled to be placed in the same situation at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party. This is a well established rule of law, frequently acted tipon in sales by factors,... | |
 | John William Smith - 1840 - 530 pages
...principal muy sue on it ; the defendant, in the latter case, being entitled to be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party. This rule is most frequently acted on in sales by factors, agents, or partners,... | |
 | John William Smith - 1842 - 612 pages
...principal may sue on it; the defendant, in the latter case, being entitled to bo placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party. This rule is most frequently acted on in sales by factors, agents, or partners,... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court - 1845 - 900 pages
...principal may sue upon it; the defendant in the latter case being entitled to be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party." The defendants, therefore, had a right to set off the debt due to them from... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Edmund Saunders - 1845 - 968 pages
...principal may sue upon it; the defendant in the latter case being entitled to be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party. 5 B. & Ad. 393. Sims v. Bond.~\ If, however, the ostensible partner have represented... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 pages
...been had he been the plaintiff on the record (c); and that the defendant should be placed in the same situation at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if (y) Priestley i. Fouldt, 2 Scott, (A) Smith's Mercantile Law, 3rd NR, 205. ed., 133 ; per Lord Ellenborongh,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1847 - 612 pages
...principal may sue upon it; the defendant in the latter case being entitled to be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party. This rule is most frequently acted upon in sales by factors, agents, or partners,... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1847 - 232 pages
...been had he been the plaintiff on the record f(e) and that the defendant should be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the &gent had been the contracting party. (g) This right of set-off, however, could not be maintained,... | |
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It is a well-established rule of law that where a contract, not under seal, is made with an agent, in his own name, for an undisclosed principal, either the agent or the principal may sue upon it, the defendant, in the latter case, being entitled to be... 
