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or if the person acting as representative had not capacity for the act.

118.

The provisions of the foregoing five articles apply to a unilateral juristic act only if the other party consents that the act be done without the person acting as representative having authority as such, or if he does not dispute his authority. The same applies, when a unilateral juristic act is done to a person having no authority with his consent.

Section IV.
Void and Voidable Juristic Acts.

119.

A void juristic act does not become valid by ratification; but if the parties concerned ratify it with knowledge of its invalidity, they are deemed to have done a new act.

120.

A voidable act can be rescinded only by the incapacitated party or the party who has made the defective expression of intention or by a representative or successor of such persons.

A juristic act done by a wife may also be rescinded by her husband.

121.

An act which has been rescinded is deemed to have been void from the beginning; but the incapacitated

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