 With respect to the question whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong.  Principles of the Law of Torts - Page 64by Francis Taylor Piggott - 1885 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Williamson Kerr - Fraud - 1868 - 498 pages
...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 - Parties to actions - 1870 - 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1874 - 880 pages
..." 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 is answerable...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 - Sales - 1874 - 238 pages
...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 answerable...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 - Torts - 1875 - 830 pages
...the facts than upon the principle involved), the learned justice proceeded to say : " With respect to the question whether a principal is answerable...distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and any other wrong. The general rule is, that the master is anewerable for every such wrong of the servant... | |
 | William Macpherson, Herbert Cowell, Arthur Maynard Talbot - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 968 pages
...App. 394, and the doctrine above adverted to reiterated, the court saying " there is no distinction between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong;" and both cases hold that an action of deceit may be maintained against a company, whether incorporated... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - Jurisprudence - 1883 - 422 pages
...company never authorized him to do." I may add the following observations by Mr. Justice Willesf : — "The general rule is that the master is answerable...such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed 1 in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 940 pages
...principal, but because (as it was well put by Mr. Justice Willes in BarwicK's Case (*) ), " with respect to the question whether a principal is answerable...his agent in the course of his master's business, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong." It... | |
 | Henry Hurrell, Sir Clarendon Golding Hyde - Directors of corporations - 1884 - 190 pages
...entered into. In that state of things, not the agent but the principal is the person liable. With respect to the question whether a principal is answerable...his agent in the course of his master's business, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and of any other wrong. The master is... | |
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