{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-2322","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 2322","heading":"","body":"An authority expressed in general terms, however broad, does not authorize an agent to do any of the following:\n(a) Act in the agent’s own name, unless it is the usual course of business to do so.\n(b) Define the scope of the agency.\n(c) Violate a duty to which a trustee is subject under Section 16002, 16004, 16005, or 16009 of the Probate Code.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427. - 3273.91.]","PART 4. OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS [1738. - 3273.91.]","TITLE 9. AGENCY [2295. - 2400.]","CHAPTER 1. Agency in General [2295. - 2357.]","ARTICLE 2. Authority of Agents [2304. - 2326.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"10c9252470b31d491ba8422b5f7810f9388d722b2c165f3de39c8d842c0ad87b","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-2321","next":"us-ca/civ-2323"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}