Operative
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OPERATIVE. A workman; one employed to perform labor for another.
2. This word is used in the bankrupt law of 19th August, 1841, s. 5,
which directs that any person who shall have performed any labor as an
operative in the service of any bankrupt shall be entitled to receive the
full amount of wages due to him for such labor, not exceeding twenty-five
dollars; provided that such labor shall have been performed within six
months next before the bankruptcy of his employer.
3. Under this act it has been decided that an apprentice who had done
work beyond a task allotted to him by his master, commonly called overwork,
under an agreement on the part of the master to pay for such work, was
entitled as an operative. 1 Penn. Law Journ. 368. See 3 Rob. Adm. R. 237; 2
Cranch, 240 270.