Binding
Bind´ing
TO BIND, BINDING, contracts. These words are applied to the contract entered
into, between a master and an apprentice the latter is said to be bound.
2. In order to make a good binding, the consent of the apprentice must
be had, together with that of his father, next friend, or some one standing
in loco parentis. Bac. Ab. Master and Servant, A; 8 John. 328; 2 Pen. 977; 2
Yerg. 546 1 Ashmead, 123; 10 Sergeant & Rawle, 416 1 Massachusetts, 172; 1
Vermont, 69. Whether a father has, by the common law, a right to bind out
his child, during his minority without his consent, seems not to be settled.
2 Dall. 199; 7 Mass. 147; 1 Mason, 78; 1 Ashm. 267. Vide Apprentice; Father;
Mother; Parent.
3. The words to bind or binding, are also used to signify that a thing
is subject to an obligation, engagement or liability; as, the judgment binds
such an estate. Vide Lien.
Smyth sewing,
absolute,
adhesive,
affixation,
annexation,
attachment,
authoritative,
backing,
bandage,
bandaging,
beading,
bibliopegy,
binder,
binder board,
bond,
book cloth,
book cover,
book jacket,
bookbinding,
bookcase,
bordering,
bordure,
canonical,
case,
casemaking,
casing-in,
clasping,
cogent,
collating,
collating mark,
combinative,
communicating,
conclusive,
conjunctive,
connecting,
connectional,
connective,
consistent,
copulative,
cover,
de rigueur,
decisive,
decretory,
dictated,
didactic,
dust cover,
dust jacket,
edging,
entailed,
envelope,
envelopment,
fastener,
fastening,
fimbria,
fimbriation,
final,
flounce,
folding,
footband,
formulary,
frill,
frilling,
fringe,
furbelow,
galloon,
gathering,
gift wrapping,
girding,
gluing-off,
good,
hard and fast,
hard binding,
hard-and-fast,
headband,
hem,
hooking,
imperious,
imposed,
inevitable,
instructive,
intercommunicating,
involuntary,
irrevocable,
jacket,
joining,
just,
knot,
lashing,
lawful,
legal,
legitimate,
library binding,
ligation,
lining,
lining-up,
linking,
list,
logical,
mandated,
mechanical binding,
meeting,
motif,
must,
necessary,
niggerhead,
official,
peremptory,
perfect binding,
plastic binding,
preceptive,
prescribed,
prescript,
prescriptive,
regulation,
required,
rounding,
rubric,
ruffle,
saddle stitching,
self-consistent,
selvage,
sewing,
side sewing,
signature,
skirting,
slipcase,
slipcover,
smashing,
soft binding,
solid,
sound,
spiral binding,
splice,
stamping,
standard,
stapling,
statutory,
sticking,
substantial,
sufficient,
tailband,
tieing,
tipping,
trimming,
ultimate,
valance,
valid,
weighty,
well-founded,
well-grounded,
welt,
wire stitching,
without appeal,
wrap,
wrapper,
wrapping,
zipping