| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1867 - 468 páginas
...the author of that act not being their general agent in business, as the manager of a bank is. But with respect to the question, whether a principal...the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as... | |
| William Williamson Kerr - 1868 - 498 páginas
...v. Kuight Bruce, LJ, commentof the liability of a principal for the acts of his agent, Cbap. I. done in the course of his master's business, and for his...distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and any other wrong (f). A man cannot adopt and take the benefit of a contract entered into by his agent,... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - 1870 - 582 páginas
...Se. App. 145. See further as to the liability of a corporation for fraud, Chapter XXVIII. PRINCIPAL answerable for the act of his agent in the course...business and for his master's benefit, no sensible distiuctlon can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule... | |
| India - 1878 - 710 páginas
...the scope of his authority. " With respect to the question," said the Court of Exchequer Chamber, " whether a principal is answerable for the act of his...the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 páginas
...responsible "s — that " the fraud of the agent who makes the contract is the fraud of the principal."4 And "with respect to the question whether a principal...for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction," it has been observed,5 " can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The... | |
| Thomas William Saunders - 1874 - 238 páginas
...Harwich v. English Joint Stock Bank (L. Rep. 2 Ex. 259-267 ; 36 LJ, Ex. 147.) He there says : "But with respect to the question whether a principal is...master's business, and for his master's benefit, no serviceable distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The... | |
| Melville Madison Bigelow - 1875 - 808 páginas
...of the law to the facts than upon the principle involved), the learned justice proceeded to say : " With respect to the question whether a principal is...distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant... | |
| William Macpherson, Herbert Cowell, Arthur Maynard Talbot - 1878 - 268 páginas
...or ratified those acts, and that the acts were not shewn to have been committed for their benefit. A principal is answerable for the act of his agent...his master's business and for his master's benefit, and for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service, and... | |
| William Evans - 1879 - 802 páginas
...With respect to the question," said Mr. Justice Willes, who delivered the judgment of the court, " whether a principal is answerable for the act of his...the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as... | |
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