The Law of the Employers' Liability: For the Negligence of Servants Causing Injury to Fellow Servants ... |
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The Law of the Employers' Liability: For the Negligence of Servants Causing ... Thomas Beven No preview available - 2023 |
The Law of the Employers' Liability: For the Negligence of Servants Causing ... Thomas Beven No preview available - 2023 |
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Page 105 - The notice may also be served by post by a registered letter <2) addressed to the person on whom it is to be served at his last known place of residence or place of business; and, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 87 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been...
Page 120 - ... 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 62 - Act, be express or implied, oral or in writing, and be a contract of service or a contract personally to execute any work or labour.
Page 121 - Notice in respect of an injury under this Act shall give the name and address of the person injured, and shall state in ordinary language the cause of the injury and the date at which it was sustained...
Page 75 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 82 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform and did conform where such injury resulted from his having so conformed...
Page 123 - By reason of the act or omission of any person in the service of the employer done or made in obedience to the rules or bye-laws of the employer, or in obedience to particular instructions given by any person delegated with the authority of the employer in that behalf...
Page 105 - The notice may be served by delivering the same to or at the residence or place of business of the person on whom it is to be served.
Page 120 - ... by one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, or by the board of trade or any other department of the government, under or by virtue of any act of Parliament, it shall not be deemed, for the purposes of this act to be an improper or defective rule or by-law.