Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Debt Management Plan, Store Detective, Shoplifting
22 Mar 2017
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It is entirely possible to have more than one occupier of land or a building. Visitors to the premises who have bought tickets to see a pottery exhibit would be contractual entrants. An invitee is someone whose presence on the property is of benefit to the occupier, such as store customers and delivery or service personnel. The occupier owes a slightly lower duty to the invitee than to the contractual entrant. A licensee is someone who has been permitted by the occupier to enter for the benefit of the licensee. A licensee might also include guests invited to so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s p(cid:396)ope(cid:396)t(cid:455) fo(cid:396) a so(cid:272)ial o(cid:272)(cid:272)asio(cid:374). The ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al (cid:396)ule is that occupiers are responsible to licensees for any unusual danger of which they are aware or that they have reason to know about. The latter part of the rule is a recent addition and tends to blur the distinction between the duty owed an invitee and the duty owed a licensee.
