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Employment - From: 1800 To: 1849
This page lists 6 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
Stilk v Myrick; KBD 16-Dec-1809 - [1809] EWHC KB J58; [1809] EngR 552; (1809) 2 Camp 317; (1809) 170 ER 1168 (B)
Huttman v Boulnois, The Younger [1826] EngR 1322; (1826) 2 Car & P 510; (1826) 172 ER 231 (B)
21 Dec 1826
Employment
[ Commonlii ]
French v Brookes And Another [1830] EngR 312; (1830) 6 Bing 354; (1830) 130 ER 1316 (B)
27 Jan 1830
Employment
[ Commonlii ]
Young v Timmins (1831) C & J 331
1831
Contract, Employment
The servant had agreed not to work for anyone else bu the employer, but he might have been given no work and he received no remuneration for considerable periods. Held: He had been deprived of a livelihood, and the agreement was in restraint of trade.
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Beckham v Knight And Drake [1840] EngR 758; (1840) 1 Man & G 738; (1840) 133 ER 530
28 Jun 1840
CEC
Employment, Contract
By a contract between the plaintiff and A and B, it was agreed that the plaintiff should serve A and B as foreman in their business for seven years, if A and B, or either of them, should so long live. - The plaintiff having subsequently discovered that, at the time of making the contract, C was a dormant partner with A and B, declared upon the contract as an agreement to serve A, B, and C, or the survivor of them, for the period therein named. Held: That the contract was misdescribed. - Semble, that if it had been properly declared upon C would have been liable under the agreement.
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[ Commonlii ]
Ryder v Warde [1848] 154 ER 405
1848
Employment
A person who undertakes work and employs several or many men to do, or to assist in doing, the work is not an artificer or workman for the purposes of the Truck Act which prohibited payment other than in the currency of the realm.
Truck Act
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