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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...
trust indenture
trust indenture : a document under which a trust (as one created by the issuer of bonds in accordance with the Trust Indenture Act of 1939) is conducted ...
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 ...
Deed
Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...
Dividenda
Dividenda, an indenture; one part of an indenture, Old Records...
call
call 1 : to announce or recite loudly [ed the civil trial list] 2 : to admit (a person) as a barrister [was ed to the bar] 3 : to demand payment of esp. by formal notice [ a loan] 4 : to demand presentation of (as a bond or option) for redemption NOTE: A security issuer may call a security only if calling it is previously provided for, as, for example, in the indenture for a bond or in the stock agreement for preferred stock. The issuer usually pays the holder a premium for a called security. n 1 : a demand for payment of money: as a : a notice by the U.S. Treasury to depositories to transfer part of its deposit balance to the Federal Reserve bank b : a notice to a stockholder or subscriber to pay an assessment or an installment of subscription to capital 2 : call option at option 3 a : a formal announcement or recitation [the daily of the motion calendar] b : roll call [the speaker ordered a of the house] ...
debenture
debenture [Anglo-French debentour and Medieval Latin debentura, perhaps from Latin debentur they are owed] : an unsecured bond that is backed by the issuer's general credit rather than a specific lien called also debenture bond see also indenture compare mortgage bond at bond NOTE: Debentures are often convertible to stocks. ...
Deed poll
A deed of one part or executed by only one party and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even or polled as it was anciently termed instead of being indented...
Indentment
Indenture...
Indenture
To run or wind in and out to be cut or notched to indent...
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