No rights shall arise to either party out of an agency created for an illegal purpose.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2169; Code 1868, § 2165; Code 1873, § 2191; Code 1882, § 2191; Civil Code 1895, § 3018; Civil Code 1910, § 3590; Code 1933, § 4-201.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Agency, §§ 17, 55.
ALR.
- Right to recover against employee or his bond for money or property, the fruits of an employment involving a violation of law, 2 A.L.R. 906.
Right to recover money which the plaintiff placed in the hands of an agent, to be used for gambling purposes, 3 A.L.R. 1635.
Illegality of transaction or proposed transaction as affecting right of real estate broker to commission for promoting it, 85 A.L.R. 274.