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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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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 made the See also:

day of between A. B. of, &c., of the one See also:

PART

part and C. D. of, &c., of the other part WHEREAS the said A. B. is seised (among other hereditaments) of the See also:

MESSUAGE (from Anglo-French mesuage, probably a corruption of mesuage, menage, popular Lat. mansionaticuni, from mansio, whence mod. Fr. maison, from manere, to dwell)

messuage hereinafter described and hereby conveyed for an See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate in See also:

fee See also:

SIMPLE

simple in See also:

possession See also:

FREE

free from incumbrances and has agreed to sell the same to the said C. D. for £See also:

LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo Now THIS IN-DENTURE WITNESSETH that in pursuance of the said agreement and in See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration of the sum of £10o paid to the said A. B. by the said C. D. (the See also:

RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt whereof the said A. B. doth hereby acknowledge) the said A. B. as beneficial owner doth hereby convey unto the said C. D. ALL THAT messuage or See also:

TENEMENT (Med. Lat. tenetnentum, from tenere, to hold)

tenement situate &c., and known as, &c.

To Hotn the premises unto and to the use of the said C. D. his heirs and assigns [or in fee simple] And the said A. B. Both hereby acknowledge the right of the said C.

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