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Cases On Principal And Agent, Selected From Decisions Of English And American Courts, Edwin C. Goddard
Cases On Principal And Agent, Selected From Decisions Of English And American Courts, Edwin C. Goddard
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It is a striking proof of the fact that Agency is a modern subject in the law that Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, does not mention the subject by name, and barely makes a four-line reference to one sort of agent in his classification of servants. The old ca~es do, of course, sometimes deal with pure agency questions, but the agent is usually referred to as a servant or a factor, and the questions in issue are generally settled upon some principle of the law of Master and Servant. Agency is essentially a business- relation; hence …