Whether one is liable for the malversation of those under his authority? - Complaint raised in name of another without his authority.
Bell v. Hoc
Date: 31 May 1610 Case No. No 67.
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A wife being acted in the books of the session to abstain from the company of a slanderous man, under a pecunial pain, albeit her husband have consented to the act, she being thereafter decerned by that session to have contravened that act, and being charged for the penalty, the same will not have execution against the executors of her deceased husband, because it is not thought reasonable, that the husband's goods shall be evicted for the penalty of an injury done by his-wife to himself.
