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71 A PROBLEM AS TO RATIFICATION. yi assent of the adverse party may be withdrawn; that the with- drawal must be communicated either to the unauthorized agent or to the assumed principal ; that ratification cannot be effective unless it precedes such communication ; and that, subject to these limitations and to the general rule forbidding the doctrine of relation to be so applied as to work injustice, ratification relates back and causes the original transaction to be efficient as of its original date. Eugene Wambaugh,