{"data":{"id":"us-mt/28-10-407","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"28-10-407","heading":"Statutory exceptions to general authority.","body":"An authority expressed in general terms, however broad, does not authorize an agent to:\n(1) act in the agent's own name unless it is the usual course of business to do so;\n(2) define the scope of the agency; or\n(3) do any act that a trustee is forbidden to do by Title 72, chapter 38.","path":["TITLE 28. CONTRACTS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS","CHAPTER 10. AGENCY","Part 4. Authority of Agent"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0280/chapter_0100/part_0040/section_0070/0280-0100-0040-0070.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:50:46Z","sha256":"6ad635c55b261459af63d0627d00f68da0a67b0d076258500f2592dbb9361579","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/28-10-406","next":"us-mt/28-10-408"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}