Handybook of the Law Relative to Master, Workmen, Servants, and Apprentices, in All Trades and Occupations: With Notes of Decided Cases in England, Scotland, and Ireland. And an Appendix of Acts of Parliament, Containing, Among Others, "The Arbitration Act" of 1824, and "Councils of Conciliation Act" and "Master and Servant Act" of 1867. Together with Forms of Proceedings and Procedure, to Enable Masters and Workmen to Establish Courts of Conciliation and Arbitration, and to Carry on the SameW. Mackenzie, 1868 - 428 pages |
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... common reproach of being a mere cento of immature legislation . The Acts which have been passed since the Union with regard to the relations between employers and employed , from their mixed and , in many instances , confused character ...
... common reproach of being a mere cento of immature legislation . The Acts which have been passed since the Union with regard to the relations between employers and employed , from their mixed and , in many instances , confused character ...
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... common sense of its people , there should not have been devised some method by which these ruinous disputes could have been settled , except strikes and lock - outs . Our mercantile jurisprudence is as nearly perfect as any body of ...
... common sense of its people , there should not have been devised some method by which these ruinous disputes could have been settled , except strikes and lock - outs . Our mercantile jurisprudence is as nearly perfect as any body of ...
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... common law powers it at one time exercised , and can now only be body in Scot- recognized as a legal luminary upon the assumption of lucus a non lucendo . In many parts of the country the commission is recruited by lists sent up by the ...
... common law powers it at one time exercised , and can now only be body in Scot- recognized as a legal luminary upon the assumption of lucus a non lucendo . In many parts of the country the commission is recruited by lists sent up by the ...
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... Common Pleas , so late as the 5th of William and Mary , held that a man might have a property in a negro boy , and could bring an action of trover for him , because negroes were heathens ( a ) . It was decided , however , in 1772 , in ...
... Common Pleas , so late as the 5th of William and Mary , held that a man might have a property in a negro boy , and could bring an action of trover for him , because negroes were heathens ( a ) . It was decided , however , in 1772 , in ...
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... common law . I shall be obliged to you for your assistance in this extra- ordinary trial . " Life , p . 142 . ( 1 ) See State Trials , vol . xi . p . 339 , and Mr. Hargrave's celebrated argu- ment . ( m ) Mr. John Maclaurin , afterwards ...
... common law . I shall be obliged to you for your assistance in this extra- ordinary trial . " Life , p . 142 . ( 1 ) See State Trials , vol . xi . p . 339 , and Mr. Hargrave's celebrated argu- ment . ( m ) Mr. John Maclaurin , afterwards ...
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Page 388 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 380 - Months after the Fact committed, and not otherwise; and Notice in Writing of such Action, and of the Cause thereof, shall be given to the Defendant One Calendar Month at least before the Commencement of the Action...
Page 51 - Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
Page 366 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page 202 - Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 330 - Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants...
Page 380 - That all actions and prosecutions to be commenced against any person for anything done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid and tried in the county where the fact was committed, and shall be commenced within six calendar months after the fact committed, and not otherwise ; and notice in writing of such action, and of the cause thereof, shall be given to the defendant one calendar month at least before the commencement of the action...
Page 360 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Page 346 - ... who shall enter into any agreement, verbal, or written, among themselves, for the purpose of fixing the rate of wages or prices which the parties entering into such agreement, or any of them, shall require or demand for his or their...
Page 370 - WHEREAS by an Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain, in the Protestant Line...