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Georgia Real Estate
Chapter 9
Term | Definition |
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Universal agency | the principal gives the agent legal power to transact matters of all types on the principal’s behalf on a continuing basis. |
General Agency | the agent is given the power to bind the principal in a particular trade or business on a continuing basis. |
Special Agency | the principal empowers the agent to perform a particular act or transaction with no continuity expected or agreed upon. |
Ostensible Authority | is an agency relationship that is created by the conduct of the principal. |
Agency by ratification | established after the fact. If an agent were to secure a contract for a principal and the principal then ratifies or agrees to the contract, a court may rule that the agency was created at the time that the initial negotiations were started. |
Commingling | A broker places money belonging to a client or customer in a personal account. |
Broker owes Client | loyalty, obedience, confidentiality and full disclosure, not the customer. |
latent defect | A latent defect is one that is concealed, hidden or could only be recognized by a trained eye. A seller is always required to disclose if they have knowledge of a latent defect. |
patent defect | A patent defect is one that is in the open and would not take training or specific expertise to recognize the problem. |
puffing | statements that are merely an opinion or extravagant statements that a reasonable person would recognize as exaggeration. |
dual agency | When the same broker represents two or more principals in the same transaction. |
designated agency | There are two clients and one broker, there are two salespeople designated by the broker to represent the individual interest of each client. |
Termination of Agency | Death Expiration Agreement Revocation or Renunciation Incapacity Extinction of the Subject Matter |
Revocation | refers to the unilateral cancellation by the principal. |
Renunciation | refers to the unilateral cancellation by the agent. |
Price fixing | Two or more people conspiring to charge a fixed fee, having an anticompetitive effort. |
boycotting | Two or more people conspiring to restrain competition. A violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. |
monopoly | business becomes so dominant that no one can compete, it can be considered an illegal monopoly. Just like in the board game, a monopoly leads to everyone going bankrupt, except for the holder of the monopoly. This is a violation of Sherman anti-trust. |
tie-in agreement | when one contract is tied to another. |
Agency | An agency is created when one person, the principal, delegates to another person, the agent, the right to act on the principal’s behalf. |