| Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 970 pages
...delivered the judgment of the Exchequer Chamber in this case, and observed as follows : " The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong...express command or privity of the master be proved. That principle is acted upon every day in running-down cases; it has been applied also to direct trespass... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 468 pages
...distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong...express command or privity of the master be proved. (3) That principle is acted upon every day in (1) 7 H. & N. 172; 30 LJ (Ex.) 337. (2) Hern v. Nichols,... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - Parties to actions - 1870 - 582 pages
...distiuctlon can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule is that the master is answerable for every such wrong...express command or privity of the master be proved ... In all ^the] cases [in which the master has been held liable], it may he said that the master has... | |
| India - Contracts - 1878 - 710 pages
...distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong...express command or privity of the master be proved. That principle is acted upon every day in running down cases. It has been applied also to direct trespass... | |
| Francis Wharton - Negligence - 1874 - 960 pages
...Ashton, LR 4 QB 476. § 161. Thus it has been judicially declared in England,1 that "the general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong...express command or privity of the master be proved. That principle is acted upon every day in running-down cases. It has been applied also to direct trespass... | |
| Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1874 - 880 pages
...observed,5 " can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong...though no express command or privity of the master can be proved." Ill Fuller v. Wilson, which was an action on the case for a fraudulent misrepresentation... | |
| Thomas William Saunders - Sales - 1874 - 238 pages
...distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule, is that the master is answerable for every such wrong...benefit, though no express command or privity of the matter be proved : (Laugher v. Pointer, 5 B. & C. 547, at p. 554.) That principle is acted upon every... | |
| Melville Madison Bigelow - Torts - 1875 - 828 pages
...drawn between the case of fraud and any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is anewerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is...though no express command or privity of the master is proved ; " citing Laugher p. Pointer, о Barn. & C. 047, 554. The nature of the action is still... | |
| Melville Madison Bigelow - Torts - 1875 - 808 pages
...no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong...as is committed in the course of the service, and lor the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master is proved ; " citing Laugher... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - Torts - 1876 - 762 pages
...committed by the agent in the transaction of the ordinary business of the principal. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong...in the' course of the service, and for the master's or principal's benefit, though no express command or privity by the master or principal be proved(c).... | |
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