UPON THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ACT, 1880 (43 & 44 VICT. CAP. 42). BY ALFRED HENRY RUEGG, ESQUIRE, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE AND WESTERN CIRCUIT, Barrister-at-Law. BIBLIOTHECA MAR 1882 BODLEIAN LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, HODGES, FOSTER & CO., GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. CALCUTTA: THACKER, SPINK & CO. MELBOURNE: GEORGE ROBERTSON. PREFACE. ALTHOUGH the publication of a separate Textbook devoted to the consideration of so short an Act of Parliament as the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, may almost appear to have been unnecessary, yet, when it is remembered that the Act is the result of years of agitation on behalf of a very numerous class of persons, who are directly affected thereby, and to whom it is of the first importance that their present legal position in their employment should be accurately ascertained, I venture to hope that the production of this work may not be regarded as altogether unwarranted. I have found myself unable entirely to realize what I wished the book to be; indeed, I fear that I may be thought to have sometimes gone to the extremes of being at one time too elementary, and at another time hypercritical. |