Every master and servant his own lawyer, or, The whole law concerning masters, apprentices, journeymen, labourers, and menial servants
Subtitle: fully and familiarly explained : wherein every master and servant, of any denomination, trade, or profession, will discover when any illegal methods are practised by either party, and receive ample instructions for procuring redress ...
By: by Walter Robinson, Esq., Author of The Landlord's Pocket Lawyer
Publisher: Printed for S. Bladon, in Pater-noster Row
Published: 1780
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Master and servant; Early works to 1800; Apprentices; Labor laws and legislation
Other titles: Every master and servant his own lawyer; Whole law concerning masters, apprentices, journeymen, labourers, and menial servants
Notes: Preface dated January 1, 1780.

"... Among a Variety of other interesting Particulars will be given the following, viz. 1. Of binding apprentices in general; how far a master may correct an apprentice; method of assigning apprentices; of taking care of them in respect to death or bankruptcy; of returning part of the apprentice fee; of differences between masters and apprentices, &c. 2. Of servants employed in husbandry, and other menial servants, of fating their wages; of working in the harvest; who are compellable to work; what hours they are obliged by law to work, &c. 3. All the acts of parliament which have passed concerning particular trades and manufactures, for regulating the wages and othter particulars between masters and servants; such as silk-manufactures, clothiers, leathern-manufactures, hatters, taylors, clock-makers, watch-makers, shoe-makers, &c. A work essentially useful to every master; as well as to every Apprentice, Journeyman, Labourer, or other Servant".

Signatures: [A]² B-L⁴ [M]².

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NUC pre-1956 NR0338461 (vol. 498, p. 695)