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78, Farebrother V. Simmons (1822), 5 b. & Aid. 333, and

Hinde v. Whitehouse (1806), 7 East. 558.

The signature of the auctioneer's clerk made in the sale

book at the auction is not sufficient to satisfy the Statute

of Frauds, unless the clerk has been specially authorized to

sign by the party to be charged upon the contract : for the

auctioneer has no authority implied in law to delegate to

his clerk the right to sign the sale book — vide Bell v. Balls

(1897), 13 T. L. K 274.

Directly the auction is over the auctioneer is the

agent of the seller only, and he cannot then bind the

buyer by his signature, so as to satisfy the Statute — vide

Mews v. Garr (1856), 1 H. & C. 484, and Bell v. Balls, uhi

supra.

If an auctioneer advertises a sale by auction as taking-

place on a certain day, and then does not sell, he is not

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34 The law of agency.

liable to indemnify those who have been put to expense

In attending the sale, as his advertisement is a mere state-

ment of intention, and affords no ground of action — vide

Harris v. Nickerson (1873), L. R. 8 Q. B. 286.

But where a sale by auction is advertised to be " without

reserve," then the auctioneer is liable upon a contract to the

highest bond fide bidder, that the goods shall be knocked

down to him — vide Warlow v. Harrison (1858), 1 E. & E.

295.

Commission Agents. — A Commission Agent may be defined

as an agent who resides in England and buys or sells goods

In England as principal for a correspondent abroad ; or

who resides abroad, and buys or sells goods abroad as

principal for a correspondent in England, charging his

correspondent with the price of the goods and a commission

for his services. The term commission agent is sometimes

used as synonymous with the term factor.

A commission agent is not, strictly speaking, an agent

at all, but rather a quasi-vendor, as he does not establish

any privity of contract between his employer and a third

l)arty.

The distinction between a commission agent and a

seller of goods is well laid down in the case of Ireland

V. Livingstone (1872), l. R. 5 h. L. 395 ; where Black-

burn, J., said ; " If the consignor is a person who has con-

tracted to supply the goods at an agreed price to cover cost,

freight, and insurance, the amount inserted in the invoice

Is tlio agreed price, and no commission is charged. . . .

H]ach party there takes upon himself the risk of the rise or

fall in price, and there is no contract of agency or trust

l)etwecn them, and therefore no commission is charged.

Jiut it is also very common for the consignor to be an

agent, who does not bind himself absolutely to supply the

goods, but merely accepts an order b}' which he binds

himself to use due dilitrcnce to fulfil the ordor. lu that case

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he is bound to get the goods as cheap as he reasonably can,

and the sum inserted in the invoice represents the actual

cost and charges at which the goods are procured by the

consignor, with the addition of a commission ; and the

naming of a maximum limit shows that the order is of that

nature."

But although a foreign commission agent is bound

to pay the foreign seller for the goods, and is therefore

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