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continuing representationprincipal liability
Briess v Wooley
Briess v Woolley [1954] AC 333
Key Principle
A fraudulent misrepresentation relating to an existing state of facts is treated as continuing and as being repeated until acted upon, so that principals who authorise an agent to conclude a contract are liable for a fraudulent representation the agent made (even before the agency began) that continued to operate on the representee's mind at the time of contracting.
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