Millership v John Brookes The Elder; 24 May 1860

References: [1860] EngR 774, (1860) 5 H & N 797, (1860) 157 ER 1399
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An indenture sealed and delivered to an attorney who is acting for all the parties to it, with directions that it is not to take effect till something else is done, operates merely as an escrow. Quaere, whether, in order to enable a master to sue on the covenants in an indenture of apprenticeship, it is necessary that he should have executed the deed or a counterpart of it.
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