Download or read book Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 written by Douglas Hay and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and