Green v Thompson [1899] 2Q.B. 1 DC

Facts: The respondent, who was an infant, bound herself to serve as an apprentice to the appellant in a certain branch of his business for a term of five years, ‘excepting the usual holidays and days on which the said branch of the business of her said master shall be at a standstill through accident beyond the control of the master’. And it was stipulated that she should be paid certain wages ‘during the said term excepting and subject as aforesaid’. It was contended on her behalf that that provision that the master might discontinue the payment of wages during the excepted period was disadvantageous to her, and rendered the whole deed of apprenticeship void.