Making the Empire a Thinkable Whole: Master and Servant Law in Transterritorial Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2007
Abstract
“[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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