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... Servant , I. Verbal Contract , II . Written Contract , 113 115 115 III . Implied Contract , 117 IV . Duration of the Contract , 118 V. Exceptions to the Obligations on the Servant to enter and continue in the Service , or on the Master ...
... Servant , I. Verbal Contract , II . Written Contract , 113 115 115 III . Implied Contract , 117 IV . Duration of the Contract , 118 V. Exceptions to the Obligations on the Servant to enter and continue in the Service , or on the Master ...
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... servants without his authority . This point does not appear to have been determined in Scotland , but it has been so fixed in England . ( Fraser , 619. ) 85. The separate estate of the wife is not liable for alimentary or necessary ...
... servants without his authority . This point does not appear to have been determined in Scotland , but it has been so fixed in England . ( Fraser , 619. ) 85. The separate estate of the wife is not liable for alimentary or necessary ...
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... SERVANT . 544. The complete family , both in ancient and modern times , has been regarded as embracing the servants of the house ; and service has thus generally been considered as belonging to the domestic relations . But so mercenary ...
... SERVANT . 544. The complete family , both in ancient and modern times , has been regarded as embracing the servants of the house ; and service has thus generally been considered as belonging to the domestic relations . But so mercenary ...
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... Servant , 3. ) 546. Every person of lawful age , and not subject to any natural or legal incapacity - that is , every person who is capable of contracting - may be either a master or a servant . 547. A pupil cannot enter into a valid ...
... Servant , 3. ) 546. Every person of lawful age , and not subject to any natural or legal incapacity - that is , every person who is capable of contracting - may be either a master or a servant . 547. A pupil cannot enter into a valid ...
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... to writing , and cannot be proved by parole evidence . In this respect it stands on the same footing with the contract of lease . ( Paterson v . MASTER AND SERVANT . 115 Of Master and Servant, Verbal Contract, Written Contract,
... to writing , and cannot be proved by parole evidence . In this respect it stands on the same footing with the contract of lease . ( Paterson v . MASTER AND SERVANT . 115 Of Master and Servant, Verbal Contract, Written Contract,
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Page 362 - A cheque is a Bill of Exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Promissory Note. — A Promissory Note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money...
Page 411 - Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent, and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent unless general, or the ship be stranded.
Page 152 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or 2.
Page 146 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform and did conform...
Page 404 - interest or no interest," or "without further proof of interest than the policy itself," or "without benefit of salvage to the insurer...
Page 442 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Page 356 - Notice of dishonor is not required to be given to an indorser in either of the following cases — 1. Where the drawee is a fictitious person or a person not. having capacity to contract, and the indorser was aware of the fact at the time he indorsed the instrument; 2.
Page 146 - By reason of the act or omission of any person in the service of the employer...
Page 346 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 346 - An inland bill is a bill which is or on the face of it purports to be (a) both drawn and payable within the British Islands, or (b) drawn within the British Islands upon some person resident therein. Any other bill is a foreign bill. For the purposes of this Act "British Islands...