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Practice question: Extinguishment

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A general power exists. Principal gives another agent a special power for one identified matter under 1926. The original agent argues the general power necessarily controls that same matter forever. Which is best?
  1. The general power is revoked as regards the special matter, under the stated rule.
  2. Every later special power is automatically irrelevant.
  3. The special power necessarily revokes all unrelated matters too.
  4. Only a new will can affect agency.
  5. The first agent may privately prohibit principal action.

Legal references

  • Civil Code Articles1649-1652,1663-1668,1870-1875,1890-1893 and1921-1932: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html

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