A general agent may be appointed in different ways.
A cashier of a bank, for example, is a general agent to transact its business, but the mode of appointing him rarely consists of anything more than a resolution of the board of directors.
One who deals with a special agent must find out what authority he possesses; therefore more care is needful in dealing with a special than with a general agent.
Whenever one acts as a general agent he is supposed to have all the authority that general agents possess who thus act for their principals, unless the person who is dealing with him knows of the restriction on his authority.
Thus if a principal had a farm he might have a general agent to act as his farmer; if he owned a mill, another general agent who had charge of it.
A general agent is one who has authority to act for his principal or person he represents in all matters, quite as the principal himself could do; or in some of his matters.
As a general agent, a partner has almost unlimited authority to bind the firm.
It is much easier to find a case of apparent authority, which will bind the principal, if the agent is a general agent than if he is a special agent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general agent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
