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The Actuarial Aspects of Recent Legislation, in the United Kingdom and other Countries, on the subject of Compensation to Workmen for Accidents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

John Nicoll
John Nicoll*
Affiliation:
Life Association Scotland
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The liability of the employer to compensate his employees, as well as other persons, for injuries sustained through his fault, may be traced from an early period in the world's history in the Common Law of various countries.

For example, by the Jewish Law, said to have been promulgated about the year 1500 B.C., if a master were the means of causing the loss, either intentionally or unintentionally, of the eye or of the tooth of his slave, he was bound to let him go free for his eye or his tooth's sake. Again, according to the same law, if an employer allowed his ox to gore either his servant or a stranger, he was required to pay various compensations to the injured if he survived, or to his relatives in the event of the injury being followed by death.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 36 , Issue 5-6 , 1902 , pp. 417 - 564
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1901

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References

page 443 note * For subsequent alterations on these allowances, see Addendum.

page 476 note * For further particulars of the Bill herein referred to, see Addendum.

page 477 note * For information as to Laws in British Colonies, see Addendum.