Van Den Eynde . Ulster Rail. Veitch v. Russell, 83 Venables v. Smith, 56, 299 Vose. Lancashire & Yorkshire Vrede, The, 153 W. Wadling v. Oliphant, 239, 240 Waite v. North Eastern Ry. Co., 329 299 Waldo v. Martin, 134 Walker v. British Guarantee Association, 210 278 Weatherston v. Hawkins, 188 Webb v. East, 187 v. England, 184, 198 r. Rennie, 335 Webster v. Dillon, 199 Weems v. Mathieson, 319 Wennall v. Adney, 180 Western Bank of Scotland v. Addie, Westlake v. Adams, 123 v. Great Western Rail. Co., Wheatley v. Patrick, 272 251 Whincup v. Hughes, 184 - v. Boby, 198 v. Cuyler, 95 v. France, 661 v. Spettigue, 232 Whitehead v. Holdsworth, 403 Whiteley v. Armitage, 636 v. Pepper, 279 Whitely v. Adams, 186 Whitfield v. Lord Le Despenser, 290 ADDENDA. Page 164. By Apportionment Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict. c. 35, s. 2, salaries are made apportionable. 183. To authorities in note (d) add Eaton v. Western. 198. See May v. Thomson, L. R. 20 Ch. D. 705; 47 L. T., N. S. 295 as to 223. In note (d) for “is not,” read "is not often." 227. Coventry v. Windal (1615), Brown. 67. A man cannot compel an apprentice (to a surgeon) to go beyond seas except he go with him, "but clearly he might send his apprentice to Chester, or any other part of England." 231. See Gunter v. Astor (1819), 4 Moore 12, as to damages for enticing away servant. 482. As to the meaning of "employed," see Beadon v. Parrot (1871), L. R. 6 Q. B. 718, where it was held that the respondent had committed the offence of employing a child within sections 6 & 7 of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 146, though the respondent had no interest in the proceeds of the sale of the child's work, and though the materials were supplied by the child's mother. Page 545. Saunders v. Crowford, has been overruled by Winyard v. Toogood, W. N., Dec. 23, 1882, p. 187; Times, Dec. 20, 1882; Solicitor's Journal, Dec. 23, 1882. 664. McGiffin v. Palmer's Shipbuilding Co. is reported in 47 L. T. N. S. 346, where Field, J., says the "defect" must be "something in the permanent condition" of the way. 666. Bunker v. Midland Rail. Co., Law Times, Dec. 16, 1882; Solicitors' Journal, Dec. 16, 1882 (plaintiff, a van guard, ordered by foreman to drive a van to B. market, and injured in so doing; plaintiff could not recover damages, inasmuch as the order was not, by the defendants' rules, one to which he was bound to conform). ,, 670. Munday v. Thames Iron Works Co. is reported in 47 L. T., N. S. 351. "The liability of employers is considerably increased, and if the Legislature had intended that workmen should have a double remedy, I think we should have found something in the Act to indicate it." -Manisty, J. THE LAW OF MASTER AND SERVANT. INTRODUCTION. THE relation of Master and Servant is created by contract. Their duties to, and rights against, each other arise out of contracts, express or implied. The only exceptions are duties and rights created by statute (a). This is a statement of the law of Master and Servant as it is and as it has long been; and abundance of authority in support of these propositions will be found in this book. But labourers and workmen were not always free to make contracts with their masters. Services were not performed and exacted in virtue of any agreement. Traces of serfage are said to be still found in the law of Master and Servant. It may be well to preface the description of the law as it is with a short history of its growth. Serfage or villenage is an early English institution; even slavery once existed in this country. The ceorl of early times-who corresponded to the liten, leten, lazzen, aldien, aldionen of old German society-was not exactly a (a) See Austin's Jurisprudence, vol. i., p. 396, and vol. ii., p. 970, as to certain peculiarities of the Law of Master and Servant. Out of the relation grow not only rights in personam, but rights in rem. B |