An attorney’s clerk, articled by indenture, was held to be an apprentice and to gain a settlement as such for poor law purposes. In legal acceptation an apprentice is a person who is bound to and who serves another, for the purpose of learning something which the other is to teach him. Crompton J said: ‘The meaning, in law, of the word ‘apprentice’ is well known. He is a person bound to serve a master who is bound to teach him. Such was the meaning of the term, when the statute [of 1814] passed, no less than it is at present.’
Judges:
Cockburn CJ, Crompton J, Blackburn J
Citations:
(1860) 2 El and El 742
Cited by:
Cited – Edmonds v Lawson, Pardoe, and Del Fabbro CA 10-Mar-2000
A contract of apprenticeship is synallagmatic. The master undertakes to educate and train the apprentice (or pupil) in the practical and other skills needed to practise a skilled trade (or learned profession) and the apprentice (or pupil) binds . .
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Employment, Legal Professions
Updated: 29 April 2022; Ref: scu.184784