Nature, Form, and Kinds

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1. What is central to agency under Article 1868?
2. May agency generally be oral under Article 1869?
3. How does Article 1876 distinguish general and special agency?
4. A power merely authorizes “general and unlimited management” of property. The agent invokes that phrase alone to transf…
5. An agent holds a special power to sell a property but no power to mortgage it. Does Article 1879 treat the sale power a…
6. An owner tells a broker orally to sell a parcel. The broker signs a sale, but the only authority shown is oral and no o…
7. A principal gives an agent authority to compromise a dispute. The agent, without further authority, submits it to arbit…
8. Explain why broad management wording does not necessarily authorize acts of ownership.
9. Distinguish the general oral-agency rule from authority to sell land through an agent.
10. Explain the separate scope of powers to sell, mortgage, compromise and arbitrate.
11. Under 1875, what compensation presumption applies to agency absent contrary proof?
12. Under 1870, can acceptance be implied from acts carrying out the agency?