O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 10-6-3 (2019)

Eligibility standard for agent

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Any person who is of sound mind may be appointed an agent; so a principal shall be bound by the acts of his infant agent.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2159; Code 1868, § 2155; Code 1873, § 2181; Code 1882,

§ 2181; Civil Code 1895, § 3001; Civil Code 1910, § 3573; Code 1933, § 4-102.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Insane persons are generally declared incompetent to be agents. Central of Ga. Ry. v. Hall, 124 Ga. 322, 52 S.E. 679, 1905 Ga. LEXIS 708 (1905). Bank or lending institution may act as agent for another. Heard v. Decatur Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n, 157 Ga. App. 130, 276 S.E.2d 253, 1980 Ga. App. LEXIS 3229 (1980).

Attorney at law is agent of highest rank for client. Scroggins v. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy (In re Kaleidoscope, Inc.), 15 B.R. 232, 1981 Bankr. LEXIS 2579 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 1981), rev’d, 25 B.R. 729, 1982 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16133 (N.D. Ga. 1982).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Agency, § 9 et seq. C.J.S. 2A C.J.S., Agency, §§ 26, 29.

ALR. Infant’s appointment of agent, and acts of agent thereunder, as void or voidable, 31 A.L.R. 1001.