Excerpt from Handbook on the Law of Persons and Domestic Relations IN this book the same general plan has been followed as that adopted in the previous books of the Hornbook Series. A concise statement of the law precedes each subdivision of the subject, and is followed and illustrated by a fuller treatment in the subsidiary text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Law of Persons: Or Domestic Relations To facilitate the use of these black-letter cases, I have usually selected cases which were reported in one or more sets of reports besides the official volumes, so that in a large class each student would be able to get access to a report of the case in the library. In the older text-books, the subject of Domestic Relations included a well-settled group of subordinate topics. These were usually: Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master and Servant, and Infancy. In some recent text-books and case-books, the subject of Master and Servant is omitted. It is probably thought that the older relations of the servant which are really domestic relations, such as those of the household servant or of the apprentice, are of too little importance to require special treatment; and that the modern topic of employer and employee is too large and complex, and too dissimilar to the other subordinate topics, to be profitably treated in this connection. But it seems to me that there are great advantages in including the topic of Master and Servant, or Employer and Employee, in a course on Domestic Relations. In the first place, many other topics included within this subject are somewhat elementary, and do not attract the active attention of the student; but the subject of Employer and Employee is so full of up-to-date interest that it stimulates the entire course, making it more satisfactory to both the instructor and the student. This would hardly be a legitimate reason for including it within the subject, if it did not properly belong there; but I am persuaded that it does. Some parts of the law of Employer and Employee may be covered by the course on Torts, some parts of it by the course on Contracts, and some parts by the course on Agency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.