Slavery definition

Slavery means the status or condition of a person over whom any or all the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised;

Slavery means reducing a person by any means to a state of submitting to the control of another person as if that other person were the owner of that person;

Slavery means, as defined in the Slavery Convention of 1926, the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised, and "slave" means a person in such condition or status;

Examples of Slavery in a sentence

• The Supplier warrants that the Supplier and, to the best of its knowledge and belief having made reasonable enquiries, its supply chain, have not been convicted of any offence involving Modern Slavery.

• The Supplier must immediately notify the Customer if it becomes aware of any actual, potential or perceived Modern Slavery in its operation or its supply chain.

• The Supplier warrants that it and its supply chain will conduct their business in a manner so as to reduce the risk of Modern Slavery in their operations and supply chains.

• If the Customer agrees that the Supplier may subcontract its obligations under the Contract, the Supplier must implement an appropriate system of due diligence, designed to ensure the subcontractor takes reasonable steps to reduce the risk of Modern Slavery in the subcontractor’s supply chains and in any part of the subcontractor’s business.

• Murphy, American Slavery, Irish Freedom: Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2010), 174-191.

More Definitions of Slavery

Slavery means, in accordance with the 1926 Slavery Convention, the status or condition of a person over whom all or any of the powers attaching to the right of “ownership” are exercised and ownership, as the key element of slavery, shall be construed as the behaviour on the part of the offender as if he/ she did own the person, which deprives the victim of their freedom. “Servitude” means the obligation to provide services that is imposed by the use of coercion and includes the obligation for a ‘serf’ to live on another person’s property and the impossibility of changing his or her condition.

Slavery means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person;

Slavery means the practice of owning enslaved persons.

Slavery means the practice of owning Enslaved Persons.

Slavery means the status or condition of a person over whom control is exercised to the extent that the person is treated like property;

Slavery means the status or condition of a person over whom any or all the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised; or

Slavery means exercising the right of ownership over a person;