Court: High Court of Ghana
Year: 1972
Principle(s): An agent is in a fiduciary relationship with the principal and therefore has a duty imposed on him to account to the principal for all monies received by him on behalf of the principal.
Court: Supreme Court
Year: 2018-2019
Principle(s): An agent has the power to alter his principal’s legal relationship with others; Liability of a disclosed principal; When a direct contractual relationship is established between the principal and a third party, the agent does not form part of that relationship; The party can hold either the agent or principal liable under the contract, but never both.
Court: Court
Year: 1988
Principle(s): Apparent or ostensible authority; Principal liable for acts of agent whose authority is ostensible
Court: Court of Appeal
Year: 1973
Principle(s): Ostensible authority: The respondent company, by their conduct of holding out Attoh Quarshie as a director with an unqualified authority to act on their behalf, were therefore estopped from denying him as their agent and representative
Court: High Court
Year: 1992
Principle(s): Price can be decided later in a contract for the sale of goods; specific performance only available for specific or ascertained goods
Court: Court of Appeal
Year:
Principle(s): Rejection of goods by buyer must be done within a reasonable time; When the buyer inspects the goods, is aware of possible defects, yet takes the goods, he is bound by that decision to take the goods as property of the goods would have been transferred to him.
Court: King's Bench
Year: 1924
Principle(s): An agent is entitled to be indemnified for his expenses incurred in the course of following the principal's instructions.
Court: Privy Council
Year:
Principle(s): A person in a fiduciary position cannot retain profits accruing from his breach of his fiduciary obligations.
Court: Court
Year: 1873
Principle(s): An agent may hire another agent with the consent of the principal and create a relation between the principal and sub-agent; sub-agent accountable to principal; agent cannot personally profit from the agency without the consent of the principal
Court: High Court (Accra)
Year: 1962
Principle(s): General vs specific agent; In examining the authority of the agent, the courts take into consideration surrounding circumstances leading to the formation of the agency
Court: Court
Year: 1963
Principle(s): Apparent authority: a legal relationship between the principal and the contractor created by a representation, made by the principal to the third party, intended to be and in fact acted on by the third party, that the agent has authority to enter on behalf of the principal into the contract of a kind within the scope of the apparent authority, so as to render the principal liable to perform any obligations imposed upon him by such contract.
Court: Court
Year: 1982-83
Principle(s): Real or ostensible authority determinable as a matter of fact; Claimant must prove that there was ostensible authority
Court: House of Lords
Year: 1967
Principle(s): A person in a fiduciary position must not make profits out of his trust/using trust property for personal gain.
Court: High Court
Year: 1978
Principle(s): The property in the two whiskeys was passed to the respondent even though he did not have physical possession of the whiskeys. The seller, by retaining possession of the goods, was considered a bailee and not an owner.
Court: Court
Year:
Principle(s): Estoppel: if actual owner acts in a way that suggests another party has the ownership of the goods, then that other party may validly transfer title of the goods.
Court: Supreme Court of Ghana
Year: 2012
Principle(s): Latent defects; rejection must be done within reasonable time; goods cannot be rejected after property has passed from seller to buyer.
Court: House of Lords
Year: 1895
Principle(s): A hire purchase agreement is not an agreement to buy. Though this option is available.
Court: Court
Year: 1975
Principle(s): Meaning of Hire Purchase Agreement, Consequences of Non Compliance with Formal Requirements for Hire Purchase etc
Court: Court of Appeal
Year: 1978
Principle(s): Effects of non-compliance with statutory provisions on formation of a hire purchase agreement
Court: Court
Year: 1992
Principle(s): Right of courts to dispense with formal requirements of a hire purchase; protected goods; damages for loss of use.
Court: Court of Appeal
Year: 1966
Principle(s): Meaning of a Bank