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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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.