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Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Studies in Legal History)
Masters Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire 15621955 - Studies in Legal History
Author: Douglas Hay
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopte...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807828779
ISBN-10: 0807828777
Publication Date: 11/15/2004
Pages: 656
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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