ON

THE LAW OF

Master and Servant,

WITH ALL THE AUTHORITIES.

BY

JAMES PATERSON, M.A., BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

EDITOR OF "THE LICENSING ACTS," ETC., ETC.

SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE AND CRANE COURT,

Law Printers and Publishers,

LONDON: SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE AND CRANE COURT.

PREFACE.

HIS Work is designed for the use of those who are

THIS

actively engaged in the Practice of the Law, and who, while dispensing with comments and expositions of principles, desire to have ready access to the authorities usually referred to in the discussion and consideration of the subjects.

The following improvements in abbreviating the references have been adopted, as there can now be no risk of confusion thereby caused—

As the leading railway companies are parties in so many

modern

cases, the following initials are used :

G. N. R.; G. W. R.; L. N. W.; L. S. W.; L. S. E.; G. E. R.; N. E. R.; Midl. R.; Metrop. R.;

L. C. D.;

L. B. S. C.

GOLDSMITH BUILDING, TEMPLE.

October, 1885.

J. P.