I found his sales contract--a contract that was also an assignment of wages.

The 1758 Navy Act enacted that a common seaman or inferior officer could revoke an assignment of wages in any form simply by appearing in person at 'the pay' and demanding his wages.

Wage assignments and garnishees--employers just naturally don't like the things.

A wage assignment gave the lender an enforceable claim on the debtor's next wage payment.

Not just the wage assignment, not just the insurance policy, not just the waiver of paternity and copulation 'rights', so-called.