If the c t o signs an agreement for a million dollars worth of servers, but they weren't an actual officer, does that make that contract null and void? So on really big contracts, you can get asked that question. And there's this other rule of law called apparent authority. If i sign up with, with, in your example, with the c t o of the company for something related to what a typical c e o would have author ty to sign, i can rely on that fact"...
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