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प्रश्न
Legal Principle: A characteristic feature of partnerships is the principle of mutual agency, i.e., every partner is an agent for every other partner and will hence be able to bind them by his act, within the business of the partnership.
Fact Situation: Ram and Shyam are partners of M/s R & S Trading Company which trades in rice varieties. Ram agrees to purchase ten tons of rice from Govind. Ram dies after the rice is delivered to the premises of M/s R & S Trading Company but before the payment of the price is made. Is the agreement binding on Shyam?
Which of the following statements is the most appropriate in relation to the legal principle stated above?
पर्याय
Being partners, Ram’s agreement to purchase rice for their partnership is not binding on Shyam.
Since Ram is no more, the agreement is not binding on Shyam.
Being partners, Ram’s agreement to purchase rice for their partnership is binding on Shyam.
The agreement is binding on Ram and not on Shyam since the rice is delivered only to M/s R & S Trading Company and not to Shyam.
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उत्तर
Being partners, Ram’s agreement to purchase rice for their partnership is binding on Shyam.
Explanation:
Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners unless the partner so acting has, in fact, no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter, and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority or does not know or believe him to be a partner. The above discussion clearly explains that there is a mutual agency between partners acting within the authority for the purpose of the business of the partnership, thus option (3) is the most appropriate statement that is being partnered, Ram's agreement to purchase rice for their partnership is binding on Shyam.
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