 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...credit, he should be very careful to deal with persons of known responsibility.^) A factor cannot legally make himself the purchaser; nor if employed to purchase, can he be the Lex. Mer. 45. chant B. Molloy,329. Mal.Lex.Mer.s3. (A) Vide Mai. Lex. Mer. s1. Beawes (c) Cro.... | |
 | Richard Babington - Auctions - 1826 - 298 pages
...generally become the purchaser himself during the time that his character of agent exists. The reason and justice of this rule are too obvious to require...whatever fairness he may deal between himself and his employer, yet he is no longer that which his service requires, and his employer supposes him to be—an... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 798 pages
...a proposition on the part of the plaintiffs to purchase for themselves the defendant's starch. Now it is a fundamental rule, applicable to both sales...purchaser, nor, if employed to purchase, can he be the seller. Theob. Pr. & Ag. 219, 357, 362. Wright v. Dannah, 2 Campb. 203. 2 Chitty Rep. 205. 1 Swift... | |
 | District courts - 1859 - 256 pages
...the factor buy a commodity, which afterwards becomes damnified, he is not answerable for the loss. It is a fundamental rule, applicable to both sales and purchases, that an agent employed to sell n 2 THE SCOTTISH LAW JOURNAL. cannot make himself the purchaser; nor if employed to purchase can he... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 714 pages
...in behalf of each. It is a fundamental principle, says Justice Allen, applicable to both sales'and purchases, that an agent employed to sell cannot make himself the purchaser, nor if employed to Conkey v. Bond. V purchase can he be himself the seller. The validity of suclr a contract does not... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...to repose confidence in others, demand that the courts shall inflexibly maintain the rule declaring that an agent employed to sell cannot make himself the purchaser, nor if employed to buy, can he himself be the seller. The moment an agent ceases to be the representative solely of his... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...to repose confidence in others, demand that the courts shall inflexibly maintain the rule declaring that an agent employed to sell cannot make himself the purchaser, nor if employed to buy, can he himself be the seller. The moment an agent ceases to be the representative solely of his... | |
 | John Hoff Stewart - Equity - 1883 - 750 pages
...to repose confidence in others, demand that the courts shall inflexibly maintain the rcle declaring that an agent employed to sell cannot make himself the purchaser, nor, if employed to buy, can he himself be the seller. Id., 174 3. The moment an agent ceases to be the representative... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1164 pages
...the latter was not bound to carry out theagreementbetweeu him and Cleaver. It isafundameiitalrule, applicable to both sales and purchases, that an agent...the purchaser, nor. if employed to purchase, can he become the seller. This famlliarprincipleis recognized in many cases, among which are Everhart v. Searle,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 780 pages
...49 NY 81 ; N. Co. Nat. Bk. v. Lord, 33 Hun, 557, 566 ; Dezengreincl v. Dczcnrjrertiel, 24 id. 457.) An agent employed to sell cannot make himself the...employed to purchase, can he be himself the seller. (Conkey v. Bond, 34 Barb. 276, 236, 287 ; 36 NY 427 ; NYC Ins. Co. v. NP Ins. Co., U id. 91 ; U. 1m.... | |
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... that an agent employed to sell cannot make himself the purchaser, nor, if employed to purchase, can he be himself the seller. 
