Indenture
HM Land Registry: 1862 Act Register, glossary, published on 7 November 2014 by HM Land Registry, defines an indenture as: ‘A type of deed.’
Typically it is a deed of conveyance.
The word originates from a time when legal agreements were prepared on a single parchment that was then cut into parts, which each party retaining one part. The indenture pattern of the cut allowed verification that they were from the same original document.
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