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Liability Of Employers For Misrepresentations Made By Independent Contractors, Merton Ferson
Liability Of Employers For Misrepresentations Made By Independent Contractors, Merton Ferson
Vanderbilt Law Review
There are two ways of getting a job done. The person who wants it done can do it himself by his own efforts, management and hired help; or he can bargain with someone else for the desired result. When he hires per- sonal services and retains the management of the enterprise he is called a "master," the person hired is called a "servant," and the master is liable for what the servant does in the master's behalf. But when one bargains for a given result he does not then become a master, the person bargained with is called an independent …
Liability Of Employers For Misrepresentations Made By "Independent Contractors", Merton Person
Liability Of Employers For Misrepresentations Made By "Independent Contractors", Merton Person
Vanderbilt Law Review
There are two ways of getting a job done. The person who wants it done can do it himself by his own efforts, management and hired help; or he can bargain with someone else for the desired result. When he hires personal services and retains the management of the enterprise he is called a "master," the person hired is called a "servant," and the master is liable for what the servant does in the master's behalf. But when one bargains for a given result he does not then become a master, the person bargained with is called an independent contractor, …
Book Notes, Law Review Staff
Book Notes, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
BOOK NOTES
The Law of Trusts
By Ralph A. Newman
Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1949. Pp. xi, 452. $4.50
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Estate Planning
By Joseph Trachtman
New York: Practicing Law Institute. 1949 Edition. Paper bound. Pp. i, 170. $2.00
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BOOKS RECEIVED
The Case of General Yamashita
By A. Frank Reel
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949. Pp. v, 324. $4.00
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Cases and Materials on Commercial Law
By Hugh W. Babb and Carl B. Everberg
Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1949. Pp. iii, 963. $6.00
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Cases and Materials on Law and Accounting
By Donald Schapiro and Ralph Wienshienk …
Overtime Pay Under The Fair Labor Standards Act, Paul H. Sanders
Overtime Pay Under The Fair Labor Standards Act, Paul H. Sanders
Vanderbilt Law Review
Any rate of pay exceeding the statutory minimum that the parties to an employment agreement decide upon is permissible as far as the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act 1 is concerned. In general, too, the mode of payment is uncontrolled by the statute. Does this freedom of contract include the power to make arrangements with respect to the agreed-upon compensation which will be legally effective in determining liability under the statute? This question indicates in broad scope the most persistent controversy centering around the term "regular rate of pay," which, although undefined in the Act, is the required basis for …
Strikes By Government Employees, William V. Sanford
Strikes By Government Employees, William V. Sanford
Vanderbilt Law Review
It has been the purpose of this Note to examine the various principles and arguments involved in the development of a policy for court or legislative action with regard to strikes by government employees. It is suggested that the following principles should be controlling in the determination of that policy: (1) the general policies of the law towards striking private employees are applicable to striking government employees; (2) strikes by government employees are not all necessarily unlawful; (3) the legality of a strike by government employees depends upon its objects and upon the means used to attain them; (4) the …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Assault and Battery--Injury Sustained in Prize Fig
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Constitutional Law--Elections--Voting Rights of Residents of Federal Enclave where Polling Places are on Land under Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction
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Constitutional Law--Miscegenation Statutes--Statutory Prohibitions against Inter-Racial Marriages held Unconstitutional
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Criminal Law--Evidence--Admissibility of Sound Motion Pictures of Re-Enactment of Crime by Defendants
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Criminal Procedure--Use of Jury Primer Prior to Trial
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Estate Planning--Mistake as to Tax Consequences of a Gift--Requirements for Rescission
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Evidence--Impeachment of Witnesses--Warning Question on Examination as to Prior Testimony
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Interstate Commerce--Sherman Act--Applicability to Organized Baseball
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Labor Law--Constitutional Law--Validity of Prohibition on Contributions and Expenditures of Labor …