When there is contract of service the employee is a servant and when there is contract for services, he is an independent contractor. Under contract of service a...
– A servant and independent contractor are both employed to do some work of the employer but there is a difference in the legal relationship which the employer...
In Short V.J. & W. Henderson Ltd., pointed out four indicia of a contract of service: (i) Master’s power of selection of his servant. (ii) payment of wages...
Three considerations arise before a person can be held lieble for a tort by ratification:- It must be shown that the person ratifying the act ratified it with...
An act done for another by a person not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority, whatever, becomes the act...
It has been pointed out that the reason for vicarious liability is that the master being richer than the servant should held liable to pay for the torts...
Traditionally it was though that vicarious liability is based upon the principles of respondent superior (i.e., the responsibility must be that of the superior) and qui facit per...
Generally, a man is liable for his own wrongful acts. He is not liable for the wrongful acts of others. But under certain circumstances a man may be...
