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Indenture Contract: A legal document detailing an agreement between two parties (master and apprentice/servant) where one agrees to pay the debt of another in exchange for labor over a specified time period. Historically this type of contract applies to both servants and apprentices.

An indenture agreement is the formal contract between a bond issuer and the bondholders. It sets forth the details of all the terms and conditions of the bonds, such as the exact day of their maturity, the timing of the interest payments and how they are calculated, and the details of any special features.

An indenture is a legal contract that reflects or covers a debt or purchase obligation. It specifically refers to two types of practices: in historical usage, an indentured servant status, and in modern usage, it is an instrument used for commercial debt or real estate transaction.

As nouns the difference between indenture and deed is that indenture is (legal) a contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice) while deed is an action or act; something that is done.

Indenture is a deed. Normally, real property transaction involves the sale of real property under contract and is usually consummated by the delivery of an indenture or deed. An indenture is a written instrument used to convey an interest in real property; thus an indenture or deed conveys legal title.

Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.

To be indentured is to be forced to work by some contract. It started out as a word for a contract between masters and apprentices. Now it describes anyone bound to work, like it or not, because of some deal. Use the adjective indentured to describe someone who's bound or attached in a legal sense.