indenture

IPA: ɪndˈɛntʃɝ

noun

  • (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
  • (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
  • An indentation; a recess.

verb

  • (law) To bind a person under such a contract.
  • To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
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Examples of "indenture" in Sentences

  • Adults who were poor but could work became servants; an indenture was their ticket to relief.
  • The so-called indenture, i.e., legalized bondage of native men and women and children to white colonists.
  • In the securities business, an indenture is a legal contract between a borrower and investors, specifying the terms of a bond offering.
  • This can only refer to a wooden "indenture" of which each party preserved a copy, each fitting 'in, "dog's teeth like," as the Chinese still say, closely to the other.
  • That ended the supply of cheap labour for sugar cane farming and landowners turned to a new practice called indenture, in which labourers were contracted for a limited period of time.
  • The law respecting fugitive servants was intended to destroy the hopes of runaways in the entertainment they so frequently obtained at the hands of benevolent Quakers and other enemies of "indenture" and slavery.
  • Trivia: the name 'indenture' came from the practice of having 2 copies of the contract, one for each party, which were cut apart in a jagged tooth dente pattern, so they could be matched up at the end of the term and compared.
  • After that, an inventory of all the goods, chattels, and plate was to be taken, and an "indenture" or counterpart of the same was to be left with the superior, dating from 1 March, 1536, because from that date all had passed into the possession of the king.

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