Apprentice

A person bound in due form of law to a master, to learn from him his art, trade, or business, and to serve him during the time of his apprenticeship. 1 Bl. Comm. 426; 2 Kent, Comm. 211; 3 Rawie (Pa.) 307; 61 N. Y. 274. A mere agreement by a father that his son should work for three years for wages to be paid the father, and should be taught the employer's trade, does not constitute the son an apprentice. 3 N. J. Law, 413. See 90 N. Y. 213.

A person bound in the form of law to a master, to learn from him Bla. Com. 426; 2 Kent 211; Altemus v. Ely, 3 Rawle (Pa.) 307. Formerly the name of apprentice en la ley was given indiscriminately to all students of law. In the reign of Edward IV. they were sometimes called apprenticii ad barras. And in some of the ancient law-writers the terms apprentice and barrister are synonymous; Co. 2d Inst. 214; Eunomus, Dial. 2, § 53, p. 155; 21 L. Q. R. 353. See Barrister.

A person, usually a minor, bound in due form of law to a master, to learn from -him his art, trade or business, and to serve him during the time of hls apprenticeship. 1 Bl. Comm. 426 ; 2 Kent, Comm. 211; 4 Term, 735. Altemus v. Ely, 3 Rawle (Pat) 307; In re Goodenough, 19 Wis. 274; Phelps v. Railroad Co., 99 Pa. 113; Lyon v. Whitemore, 3 N. J. Law, 845.

— Apprentice en la ley. An ancient name for students at law, and afterwards applied to counsellors, apprentici ad barras, from which comes the more modem word "barrister."

apprenticing, I., Apprentise, learns; a learner. A person, usually an to serve another for a term of years, receiving ices, support and instruction in his tion.

A person, usually a minor, serve another for a term of years, in ported and taught a trade.

person, contracts, is a minor who is bound in due form of law to a master, and who is to learn from him his art, trade or business, and to serve him during the time of his apprenticeship, (q- v-) 1 Bl. Com. 426; 2 Kent, Com. 211; 3 Rawle, R. 307; Chit. on Apprentices.