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indenture
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Definition:1. The act of indenting, or state of being indented.2. A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.Note: [they] were originally duplicates, laid together and intended by a notched cut or line, or else written on the same piece of parchment and separated by a notched line so that the two papers or parchments corresponded to each other. But indenting has gradually become a mere form, and is often neglected, while the writings or counterparts retain the name of indentures.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"You had better be apprenticed at once. Would Gargery come here with you, and bring your indentures, do you think?"
I signified that I had no doubt he would take it as an honor to be asked.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Therefore dear father in my opinion as there can be no bargain where both be not agreed, neither any indentures sealed where the one will not consent: so can there be no contract where both be not content: no banns asked lawfully, where one of the parties forbids them : no marriage made where no match was meant.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Doctor, 'tis true—you look—for all your figures:
I sent for him, indeed. Wherefore, good partners,
Both he and she be satisfied; for here
Determines the indenture tripartite
'Twixt Subtle, Dol, and Face. All I can do
Is to help you over the wall, o' the back-side,
Or lend you a sheet to save your velvet gown, Dol.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will scarcely lie in this box; and must th' inheritor himself have no more, ha?
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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