POLC36H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-8: Elizabethan Era, Black Death
17 Jan 2017
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Chapter 5: a brief history of the common law model of employment. Canadian common law of employment contracts originates from 19th century. Before canada"s confederation in 1(cid:890)(cid:888)(cid:889), english statutory and common law applied in the new british colonies through a process called reception. As a result, canadian courts applied english case law to decide the claims before them. Reception: when the british empire established a colony, it often passed a litigation. Master and servant law was a body of statutory and related case law first enacted in. English courts first issued common law decisions regarding the employment statute that specified that the law of the colony was the statutory and common law in force on that date in england. The common law of employment contracts has only been viewed as a legal field in was the main legal mechanism for regulating the terms of employment. Simone believed the laws of master and servant were meant to secure the died).
