Citizens' Life Assurance Company v Brown
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1904 |
| Date | 1904 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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...far as English civil law was concerned by the end of the 19 th century. As Lord Lindley put it in Citizens Life Assurance Co Ltd v Brown [1904] AC 423, 426, once companies were recognized by the law as legal persons, they were liable to have the mental states of agents and employees such as......
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Cases referred to in 1965
...40 Chief Awodiya, Odole of Ilesha v. John Apoesho & Another (1959) W.N.L.R 221. 186 Citizens' Life Assurance Co. v. Brown (1904) A.C. 423, 428, P.C. 269 Clavering v. Ellison (1859) 7 H.L. Cas. 707, 725; 29 L.J. Ch. 761. 116 Clayton v. Ramsden (1943) A.C. 320. .....................................
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Agency
...v. Citizens Life Assurance Co . (1902) 2 N.S.W.R. at 212 cited with approval by Lord Lindley in Citizens’ Life Assurance Co. v. Brown (1904) A.C. 423 at 428 P.C. The question whether anything done by an agent has been done in the course of an employment which is authorized is clearly one of......
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Universities, Defamation and the Internet
...16th ed 1996) 506, 520. See also Austin vMirror Newspapers Ltd [1986] AC 299, 316(Privy Council); Citizens Life Assurance Co Ltd vBrown [1904] AC 423. Some Scottish cases haveinterpreted ‘scope of employment’ more narrowly in defamation cases than in cases involving otherkinds of tortious c......