FORMS. ARTICLED CLERKS, ATTORNIES, &c. 1. Articles of Clerkship to an Attorney and Solicitor. ARTICLES of Agreement indented, made and concluded upon the day of, in the year of our Lord 18-, Between A. A. (the attorney) of. —, gentleman, one of the attornies of her majesty's courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, at Westminster, and a solicitor in the high court of Chancery, of the one part, and C. C. (a) of —, and D. C. (the clerk) [son of the said C. C.] of the other part: WITNESS, that the said D. C. of his own free will [and by and with the consent and approbation of the said C. C.,] hath placed and bound himself, and by these presents doth place and bind himself, clerk to the said A. A. to serve him from the day of the date hereof, for and during and until the full end and term of five [or "three years," if the clerk have taken the degree of bachelor of arts or of law in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, London or Durham; see 1 Chit. Ar. Pr. 33,] years from hence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended: AND the said C. C. doth hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, covenant, promise and agree to and with the said A. A., his executors, administrators and assigns, that the said D. C. shall and will well and faithfully and diligently serve the said A. A. as his clerk, in the profession of an attorney at law and solicitor in Chancery, from the day of the date hereof, for and during and unto the full end of the said term of five [or "three"] years: And that the said D. C. shall not, at any time during such term, cancel, obliterate, spoil, destroy, waste, embezzle, spend or make away with, any of the books, papers, writings, monies, stamps, chattels or other property of the said A. A., his executors, administrators or assigns, or any of his clients or employers, which shall be deposited in his hands, or entrusted to his custody or possession, or which shall come or be entrusted to the care, custody or possession of the said D. C.: And that, in case the said D. C. shall act contrary to the last-mentioned covenant, or if he the said A. A., his executors, administrators or assigns, shall sustain or suffer any loss, damage or prejudice, by the misbehaviour, neglect, or improper conduct of the said D. C., the said C. C., his executors or administrators, shall indemnify the said A. A. and make good and reimburse the said A. A. the amount or value thereof: And further, that the said D. C. shall and will, from time to time and at all times during the said term, keep the secrets of the (a) If the party to be bound be of age, a third person is seldom made B party to the indenture, and if so, this form should be altered accordingly. |