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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Date: Neil
v.
-
15 July 1760 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In this case the Lords unanimously determined, that the contract betwixt the master and an apprentice is merely personal, and dissolved by the death of either party,—of the master as well as of the apprentice: so that the apprentice is not bound to serve out his time under the master’s executors succeeding him in the business.
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