MT · jury_instructions
Mont. Crim. Jury Instr. 5-139 (2022)
Definition of "Debt Bondage"
"Debt bondage" means inducing a person to provide:
[commercial sexual activity in payment toward or satisfaction of a real or purported debt.]
OR
[labor or services in payment toward or satisfaction of a real or purported debt if (the reasonable value of the labor or services is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt.) (the length of the labor or services is not limited and the nature of the labor or services is not defined.)]
Provenance
- Source
- courts.mt.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2022
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