Excerpt from The Civil Liability: For Personal Injuries Arising Out of Negligence IN the present work, it has been the design of the author to state the principles which, in actions for personal injuries, caused by negligence, create, as between the parties, the relations of plaintiff and defendant; to discuss the law of negligence, so far as this is to be applied to the subject-matter of the work; to consider the rules applicable in cases of liability created by statute; and, finally, to discuss the general rule of ...
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Excerpt from The Civil Liability: For Personal Injuries Arising Out of Negligence IN the present work, it has been the design of the author to state the principles which, in actions for personal injuries, caused by negligence, create, as between the parties, the relations of plaintiff and defendant; to discuss the law of negligence, so far as this is to be applied to the subject-matter of the work; to consider the rules applicable in cases of liability created by statute; and, finally, to discuss the general rule of liability as this is modified by the existence, between the parties, of the relation of employer and employee. It is upon this branch of the general subject, that the tendency of the later leading deci sions in the United States has been to modify the somewhat narrow interpretation of the common law, in favor of the master, expressed in certain leading English cases; and it is hoped that that will be found not the least valuable part of the work in which the relation of master and servant is discussed. The plan of the work, in detail, appears in the Analytical Table of Contents. In his treatment of the subject, the author has attempted to state clearly the principles of the law, and sufficiently to illustrate these by the citation of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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