See also:

• 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
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law See also:

• TERM

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
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

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 " See also:

• 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," even though the indented line be absent . The name " chirograph " (Gr. xeip, See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

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

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

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
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

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) .