It’s Not Midnight Yet!

We look at what unfolded in the Sacred Grounds we need to determine who was at fault. Could it have been the store for closing prior to its closing at midnight or was it Hanni for not control his anger management issues. Before we can determine whether or not the owners of Sacred Grounds are liable for Hanni actions we must discuss two important legal doctrines; the law of agency and Respondeat Superior. The law of agency “is concerned with any "principal"-"agent" relationship; in which one person has legal authority to act for another. Such relationships arise from explicit appointment, or by implication. The relationships generally associated with agency law include guardian-ward, executor or administrator-decedent, and employer-employee” in this case we see it as the employee which was Hanni. In dealing with Respondeat Superior” implies the responsibility of the superiors on the actions done by their employees, agents, subordinates etc when they are doing such actions during their assigned duties. So when an accident happens while handling an explosive involved in the work assigned to such person, the master is responsible for such loss.

The area of commercial law dealing with a contractual”( relating to or part of a binding legal agreement; "contractual obligations") , quasicontractual (A legal assumption invented by common law to permit recovery by one party from another in the absence of a contract), or non-contractual”( whether one who has suffered a damage can on that account demand reparation (in money or in kind) from another with whom there may be no other legal connection than the causation of damage itself. set of relationships when a person (called the agent) is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create a legal relationship with a third party. Basically, it may be referred to as the relationship between a principal and an agent whereby the principal, expressly or impliedly, authorizes the agent to work his under...