334
having
120
right to
reclaim the child except
upon repayment of the
money.
The Children are
sometimes
brought up as
adopted children, sometimes
are
employed in domestic
service, and if
girls are
sometimes specially educated
with a
view to their
becoming prostitutes. The
terms purchase and
sale of the child are
applied to these transactions
which
in which, if it is obscene, it is noted that the child
It
1
willing to be
in question is due to the effect of
of
the transaction who can
all rest assured of their preference
X
was laid
the form
of the French
I
indenture of apprenticeships
with the child so
-poster & it
which are frequently
evidenced by documents
in the form at
page
99. of the accompanying
print, and the question
has arisen whether upon
the occurrence of such
a transaction in
Hong Kong which is British soil governed by the Common Law of England
the child becomes the
slave
in the legal sense, under the control
so called
of the purchaser.