vicarious liability
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Definitions from Case Law
From 203 U.S. 399 - Frank Guy v. John a Donald · 1906Most cited · 136 citing opinions
When a man is carrying on business in his private interest and intrusts a part of the work to another, the world has agreed to make him answer for that other as if he had done the work himself. But there is always a limitation. ... when he could not select, could not control, and could not discharge, the guilty man, he does not answer for his torts.