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  "text": "Ratification is a declaration whereby a person gives his consent to an obligation incurred on his behalf by another without authority.\n\nAn express act of ratification must evidence the intention to be bound by the ratified obligation.\n\nTacit ratification results when a person, with knowledge of an obligation incurred on his behalf by another, accepts the benefit of that obligation.",
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