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INDENTURE (through 0. Fr. endenture from a legal Latin term indent-ura, indentare, to cut into teeth, to give a jagged edge, in modurn dentium, like teeth)

INDENTURE (through 0. Fr. endenture from a legal Latin See also:
TERM
term indent-ura, indentare, to cut into See also:
TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)
teeth, to give a jagged edge, in modurn dentium, like teeth) , a See also:

law term for a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed executed between two or more parties, and having counterparts or copies equal to the number of parties. These copies were all See also:

DRAWN

drawn on one piece of vellum or See also:

paper divided by a toothed or "indented " See also:

LINE

line. The copies when separated along this waved line could then be identified as " tallies " when brought together. Deeds executed by one party only had a smooth or " polled " edge, whence the name " deed See also:

POLL

poll." By the Real See also:

PROPERTY

Property See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1845, § 5, all deeds purporting to be " indentures " have the effect of an " indenture," even though the indented line be absent. The name " chirograph " (Gr. xeip, See also:

hand, ypa4ety, to write) was also See also:

early applied to such a form of deed, and the word itself was often written along the indented line (see further DEED and See also:

DIPLOMATIC

DIPLOMATIC). The term 'indenture" is now used generally of any sealed agreement between two or more parties, and specifically of a See also:

contract of See also:

APPRENTICESHIP (from Fr. apprendre, to learn)

apprenticeship, whence the phrase " to take up one's indentures," on completion of the term, and also of a contract by labourers to serve in a See also:

FOREIGN

foreign See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country or See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony (see See also:

COOLIE

COOLIE).

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