{"data":{"id":"us-mt/28-10-409","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"28-10-409","heading":"No authority to defraud principal.","body":"An agent can never have authority, either actual or ostensible, to do an act that is and is known or suspected by the person with whom the agent deals to be a fraud upon the principal.","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_0090/0280-0100-0040-0090.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:50:46Z","sha256":"fe5d7220f53131bd2314abda086eaf8a8f4eb8811c35a0cbc3b9f4a5b0da74ce","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/28-10-408","next":"us-mt/28-10-410"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}