Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 8-2-6 (2026)
Principal Bound by Agent’s Acts Under Ostensible Authority.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
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.
(Code 1923, §9539; Code 1940, T. 9, §73.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2020–2023 · leading case: Boone's Pharmacy Inc. v. EzriRx LLC (S.D. Ala. 2023).
Boone's Pharmacy Inc. v. EzriRx LLC (S.D. Ala. 2023). “As an initial matter, that Boone did not expressly give Sophie the authority to consent to receive fax advertisements, does not support that she had no authority.”
Simple Helix LLC v. Relus Tech. LLC (N.D. Ala. 2020). “§ 8-2-6. In addition, a principle clothes an agent with apparent authority by “holding the potential agent out to third parties as having the authority to act.”
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