Ratification of Unauthorized Agent's Real Property Contract

The case involved a dispute over the validity of a contract that was allegedly concluded through an agent who lacked the requisite formal authority, specifically concerning the transfer of real property rights, where the principal later ratified the unauthorized act. The court upheld the lower court's decision, reasoning that even if the initial mandate for the agent was insufficiently formal under the law governing property transfers, the subsequent and explicit ratification by the principal retroactively validated the transaction, thus rendering the contract enforceable against the principal.