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| "The decisions on implied agencies are collected
and arranged, with just discrimination, in Hare &
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1 IL UTeenIedJ on Eot0Stce, 90, note.
| "See Hare & Walaces American Leading
Gases, p. I09 40, where the this subject
(thc Contracts of Infants) cited and classified
r. Greenleaf on Evidence. s4S, note.
"The rule lin regard to the liability of principal
and agent to be extracted from the reported cases.
note, as follows" &c.-Opinion qf the Court in
Stanton vs.. Camp, BGrbour's Supreme Court Re
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..See the doctrine of Application of Payments,
II f,,lIxv Coon
15S.'-Reporter's note in Georgia Reports, 359.
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