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Making the Empire a Thinkable Whole: Master and Servant Law in Transterritorial Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2007

Ravi Ahuja
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Abstract

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“[T]he question really comes to this”, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough proclaimed during a labour trial before the King's Bench in 1817, “whether the master or the servant is to have the superior authority” (pp. 59–60). The draconian punishment imposed on the accused “servants” by England's highest-ranking judge left no doubts as to his beliefs concerning the answer to this question.

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Review Essay
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International Review of Social History , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , August 2007 , pp. 287 - 294
Copyright
2007 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Footnotes

Review of Douglas Hay and Paul Craven (eds), Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562–1955 (Chapel Hill, NC [etc.], 2004); see also IRSH, 51 (2006), p. 142.