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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3003
Agency - Scope of Authority
An agent’s conduct is within the scope of [his/her] employment if [he/she] is carrying out
the work [he/she] was hired to do or if [he/she] is doing something that is necessary or usually
done in order to carry out the work [he/she] was hired to do. You should consider whether the
agent’s conduct was in fact done in order to carry out the principal’s work or whether such
conduct is expected in order to carry out the principal’s work.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3003 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
9218b954d7b596991a4814ee1b6e107136bd8f49b9ad6c55e255cb6bf7a77149
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