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tender years exception
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Common employment
v. Faulkner, (1861) 1 B&S 806. It seems that if the injured person be an infant of such tender years as to make it unreasonable to assume that he wittingly undertook the risk of negligence of his fellow-servant, … general rule that a master is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his servant has the exception that where the person injured is the fellow-servant of and engaged in common employment with the person whose
Children
Reg. v. White, (1871) LR 1 CCR 222 (311). Evidence.--The admissibility of the evidence of a child of tender years depends upon the degree of understanding it possesses, and the religious education it has received. Under s. 38 … to street trading under eighteen (s. 20), and respecting the employment of persons under eighteen subject to certain exceptions (s. 19). The regulation of the employment of children in public entertainments is dealt with by s.22. By
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Fines in copyholds
it must, however, be reasonable, and not excessive, for excessus in re qualibet jure reprobatur communi, and two years' improved value of the land, deducting quit rents, but not land-tax, is now the full extent which the … tenant should come prepared to pay it, but the lord cannot refuse admittance because the fine is not tendered to him. When the fine is uncertain, the practice is to fix a reasonable day and place of … allow the lord to take in the exercise of this arbitrary power, except on voluntary grants, for then it is altogether in the lord's option.
Pawn or Pledge
to redeem, the pledge has been sold by the pledgee without any proper notice to the former, no tender of the debt due need be made before bringing an action therefor: for the party has incapacitated himself … increase thereof. If the pledgor have only a limited title to the thing, as for life or for years, he may still pawn it to the extent of his title; but when that expires, the pledgee must … case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of
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