Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 8-2-4 (2026)
Agent’s Authority to Effect Purpose of Agency and Represent Authority.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
An agent has authority to:
(1) Do everything necessary or proper and usual in the ordinary course of business for effecting the purpose of his agency; and
(2) Make a representation respecting any matter of fact, not including the terms of his authority, but upon which his right to use his authority depends and the truth of which cannot be determined by the use of reasonable diligence on the part of the person to whom the representation is made.
(Code 1923, §9535; Code 1940, T. 9, §69.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2020–2023 · leading case: Simple Helix LLC v. Relus Tech. LLC (N.D. Ala. 2020).
Simple Helix LLC v. Relus Tech. LLC (N.D. Ala. 2020). “” Ala. Code § 8-2-4 . As for apparent authority, a “principal is bound by acts of his agent under a merely ostensible authority to those persons only who have in good faith and without want of ordinary care incurred a liability or parted with value upon the faith thereof.”
Boone's Pharmacy Inc. v. EzriRx LLC (S.D. Ala. 2023). “” Ala. Code § 8-2-4 . As for apparent authority, a “principal is bound by acts of his agent under a merely ostensible authority to those persons only who have in good faith and without want of ordinary care incurred a liability or parted with value upon the faith thereof.”
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