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Indentation

The act of indenting or state of being indented...

Indenting

Indentation an impression like that made by a tooth...

Indent, means (1) To cut in a serrated or wavy line; esp., to sever (an instrument) along a serrated line to create multiple copies, each fitting into the angles of the other, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 773....

Indenture

Indenture, a deed indented between two or more parties, so called because duplicates of every deed inter partes were once written on one skin. The skin was cut in half irregularly or which a jagged edge: so when the duplicates were produced in Court they were seen to belong to one another by fitting into one another. By the (English) Law of Proper-ties Act, 1925, s. 56(2), reproducing (English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5, it is provided that a deed purporting to be an indenture shall have the effect of an indenture though not indented or expressed to be an indenture. Under s. 57, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, an indenture or any other deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction intended to be effected.Means a formal written instrument made by two or more parties with different interests, traditionally having the edges serrated, or indented, in a zig zag fashion to reduce the possibility of forgery and to distinguish it from a deed poll. A deed o...

indenture

indenture [Old French endenture an indented document, from endenter to indent (divide a document into sections with irregular edges that can be matched for authentication), from en- thoroughly + dent tooth] 1 : a document stating the terms under which a security (as a debenture or other bond) is issued ;specif in bankruptcy law : a document (as a mortgage or deed of trust) under which there is outstanding security constituting a claim against a debtor, a claim secured by a lien on any of the debtor's property, or an equity security of the debtor 2 : a deed or other document to which two or more parties (as both grantor and grantee) are bound ...

Crenelle

An embrasure or indentation in a battlement a loophole in a fortress an indentation a notch See Merlon and Illust of Battlement...

Deed-poll

Deed-poll, a single deed in the form of a manifesto or declaration to all the world of the grantor's act and intention. If there be no recital it usually speaks in the first person, but where recitals are introduced it speaks in the third person. See DEED.A deed poll is a deed made by and expressing the active intention of one party only, or made by two or more persons joining together in expressing a common active intention of them all. A deed poll is so called because the parchment required for such deeds has usually been shared even which evidences some act or agreement between them other than the mere consent to join in expressing the same active intention on the part of all. An indenture derives its name from the fact that the parchment on which such a deed was written was indented or cut with a waving or indented line at the top. Co Litt 229, Halsbury's Laws of England 13, para 3, p. 5....

Order

Order, does not mean only final order, Kanhikkamthoppu Parambil Radha v. Kondarappott Velayudhan, AIR 1994 Ker 412.Order, mandate, precept, command; also a class or rank.General orders are promulgated by courts for the proper regulation of their own proceedings, as the Consolidated 'Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883,' which are divided into orders, and subdivided into rules, which are amended from time to time; and particular orders are made to enforce a payment of money, to enforce obedience to justice, and compel that which is right to be performed.An order in a proceeding under Order XXI, Rule 90 is a 'judgment' inasmuch as such a proceeding raises a controversy between the parties therein affecting their valuable rights and the order allowing the application certainly deprives the purchaser of rights accrued to him as a result of the auction-sale, Redhey Shyam v. Shyam Behari Singh, (1970) 2 SCC 405: AIR 1971 SC 2337.The word 'order' which appears in a statute dealing with sales tax...

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