Principal's Right to Repudiate Unauthorized Property Transfer by Agent under Section 215 Contract Act – PLJ 2025 Lahore 613.
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📚 پسِ منظر:
⚖️ لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے قرار دیا:
✅ 1. پیشگی اجازت لازمی ہے:
✅ 2. قانونی حقِ تنسیخ (Right to Repudiate):
✅ 3. تحریری اجازت ضروری نہیں:
❌ عدالت کا فیصلہ:
📌 قانونی نکتہ:
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PLJ 2025 Lahore 613
There is no cavil to the proposition that in case of transfer of property in his own name or in the name of close relatives, attorney is bound to seek prior permission, (naeem)approval and consent of the principal.
Section 215 of the Contract Act, 1872 equips the principal with a right to repudiate the transaction when agent deals on his own account, in the business of the agency without principal's consent.
From perusal of above
referred provision of law, it clearly (naeem)manifests
that a principal can
repudiate the
transaction if:-
i. an agent deals on his
own account in the
business of the agency;
ii. without obtaining the
prior consent of the principal;
iii. not acquainting the
principal with all
material circumstances
which comes to his own knowledge;
iv. if it is shown either that any material fact has been dishonestly concealed (naeem)from the principal by the agent or that dealing of the agent has been disadvantageous to the principal.
Section 215 of the Act, ibid, however, nowhere ordains that consent of the principal shall be in writing. It may thus be oral as well.
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