apparent authority

It has been explained as a form of apparent authority, or "inherent agency power".

Here, the court found apparent authority in this case where:

What starts as an urban myth becomes a text with apparent authority.

The dissent found the officers' belief of apparent authority unreasonable.

Apparent authority can legally be found, even though actually authority has not been given.

Reliance would then have to be placed on agency by estoppel, or apparent authority.

Unlike in commercial contracting, there is no doctrine of apparent authority applicable to the Government.

Apparent authority refers to a situation where a reasonable person would understand that an agent had authority to act.

The court held that defendant's father had the apparent authority to consent to search of defendant's computer.

In relation to companies, apparent authority is usually referred to as "ostensible authority".

A company secretary routinely enters into contracts in the company's name and has administrative responsibilities that would give apparent authority to hire cars.

Such action is called apparent authority.

Mr Clegg is at his best when he spews out half baked ideas with a lot of apparent authority and conviction.

Language teachers, impressed by the apparent authority of science, follow suit and try to teach by means of operant conditioning.

Different considerations might apply where the agent's misrepresentation is about the effect of the document which deprives him of apparent authority.

But, when the Agent acts with actual or apparent authority, all the Agent's knowledge will be imputed to the Principal.

Apparent authority issues also arise in the Fourth Amendment context, concerning who has authority to consent to a search.

The effect of this provision is to deprive all employees other than the purchasing director of apparent authority to agree to variation of the terms.

There are essentially two kinds of authority recognised in the law: actual authority (whether express or implied) and apparent authority.

In any case, if Good Weather's representatives exceeded their actual authority, did they also exceed their apparent authority?

For the consent to be operative it must be such as to clothe the agent with with apparent authority to sell the goods.

Third, an agent may have "apparent authority" (also called "ostensible" authority) as it would appear to a reasonable person, creating an estoppel.

That objectively reasonable belief would have been enough to give Dr. Andrus apparent authority to consent to a search."

Apparent authority can also occur where a principal terminates the authority of an agent, but does not inform third parties of this termination.

Often, the victims are inexperienced or elderly, convinced by the apparent authority of the callers and the worrying contents of the Event Viewer.