Can a pauper hire himself for a year at £5 wages?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Johnston v. MacCallum, 1939 CanLII 155 (SK QB):
In Rex v. South Killingholme (Inhabitants) (1830) 10 B. & C. 802, 109 E.R. 647, a pauper hired himself for a year at £5 wages to his aunt. When she had no work for him he was to work for anybody for his own benefit.
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