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10  Dictionary in the Criminal Code
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debt bondage means the status or condition that arises from a pledge by a person:
 (a) of his or her personal services; or
 (b) of the personal services of another person under his or her control;
as security for a debt owed, or claimed to be owed, (including any debt incurred, or claimed to be incurred, after the pledge is given), by that person if:
 (ba) the debt owed or claimed to be owed is manifestly excessive; or
 (c) the reasonable value of those services is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or purported debt; or
 (d) the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined.