An agent's or an employee's statement can be imputed to a principal or an employer and, because of an agency-principal or employee-employer relationship, be treated as the vicarious admission of the principal or the employer -- an admission that, like other admissions, is exempt from the prohibition against hearsay -- only if the person who made the statement was in fact the principal's agent or the employer's employee.

Contributed in 2009 & last edited in 2009 by Peter Tillers
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