The following excerpt is from Paramount Farms Inc. v. Ventilex B. V., 735 F.Supp.2d 1189 (E.D. Cal. 2010):
"An agency may be created, and an authority may be conferred, by a precedent
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authorization or a subsequent modification." Cal. Civ. Code, 2307. "Ratification is the voluntary election by a person to adopt in some manner as his own an act which was purportedly done on his behalf by another person, the effect of which, as to some or all persons, is to treat the act as if originally authorized by him." Rakestraw v. Rodrigues, 8 Cal.3d 67, 73, 104 Cal.Rptr. 57, 500 P.2d 1401 (1972).[735 F.Supp.2d 1209]
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