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A Practical Treatise on the Law Relative to Apprentices and Journeymen, and Exercising Trades
A Practical Treatise on the Law Relative to Apprentices and Journeymen and Exercising Trades Author:Joseph Chitty General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1812 Original Publisher: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons Description: Includes Law books published and sold by W. Clarke and Sons ([4] p. at end). Subjects: Apprentices Journey workers Catalogs, Publishers' Journeymen Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the ... more »original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. IT. OF THE PERSONS WHO MAY BE BOUND APPREN- TICES, AND TO WHOM MODE OF BINDING AND REQUISITES OP INDENTURE -- THE STAMP THEREON -- THE COUNTERPART, AND OF THE INROLMENT OF THE INDLNTUHE. . having in the preceding chapter considered the policy of the regulations relating to apprenticeships, and the different legislative provisions which are compulsory upon a person to serve as an apprentice, or to receive another in that capacity, we will now examine more particularly the various enactments and decisions relative to this branch of the law ; and these may be considered with relation to -- 1st, The definition of the term apprentice; 2dly, Who may be bound as such, and to whom; 3dly, The mode of binding, and requisites of the indenture; 4thly, The stamp thereon; 5rhly, The counterpart; and 6thly, The inrolment of the indentures. 1st. The term "Apprentice' is derived from the I. Definition. French word apprendrc, to learn (a), which etymology may sometimes assist us in the construction of the legislative provisions relative to apprenticeships. Thus in the case of the King i. Eccleston (b). Lord Ellenhorough said, that (a) 1 Bin. Com. 426. (6) 2 East. 298. I. Definition, where the contract was that the master should teach the other a trade, and the latter was to do nothing ulterior the employment in that trade, it . was a contract apprendre; in the true sense of the word it co...« less