Indentures is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INDENTURES in dictionary:

VERB:
• INDENTURE, to bind by indentures, esp. as an apprentice
• bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or labourer
NOUN:
• a legal agreement, contract, or document.
• a deed or contract of which copies were made for the contracting parties with the edges indented for identification and to prevent forgery.
• a formal list, certificate, or inventory
• an agreement binding an apprentice to a master
• the state of being bound to service by an indenture
• a contract by which a person agreed to work for a set period for a landowner in a British colony in exchange for passage to the colony.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a document or a section of a document that is indented; a formal or official document usually executed in two or more copies; a contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time —often used in plural; a formal certificate (as an inventory or voucher) prepared for purposes of control; a document stating the terms under which a security (as a bond) is issued

Words related to INDENTURES

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Words that contain INDENTURES

indentureship19 indentureships20

How to use INDENTURES in a sentence

• Authority is given by the act to the justices in sessions to discharge the apprentice from his indentures.
• Indentures have been canceled, but the spirit of slavery is by no means dead.
• By indentures of lease and release dated August 20 and 21, 1812, Sarah Fielde conveyed the said property to Charles Lamb, of Inner Temple Lane, gentleman.
• These indentures, it is true, were in themselves unjust, but then it was not as it happened a form of injustice that affected them unpleasantly.
• They are spent in patiently reading a mass of deeds, indentures, contracts, vouchers, affidavits, evidence of every description and of the most voluminous character.
• Some of the blacks were in fact liberated by the courts as having served out the terms fixed either by their indentures or by the custom of the country.
• When the servant was out of his indentures there was no place for him.
• His troubles began after his indentures were signed.
• It was at twelve years of age that Franklin signed indentures as an apprentice to his older brother James, who was already an established printer.
• Moreover the thought of the indentures, securely locked up in Mr.
• Ann, after a solemn promise of secrecy, told her about the indentures one day.
• But at last she opened the desk, found the indentures, and hid them in the little pocket which she wore tied about her waist, under her petticoat.
• She thought with awful apprehension of these stolen indentures in her little pocket.
• If it had not been for the indentures, lying serenely in that tall wooden desk, she would almost have forgotten, herself, that she was a bound girl.
• Polly fulfilled her part of the contract in the indentures by getting the Sunday suit therein spoken of.
• When an apprentice has subscribed his name, and sealed his indentures, doth he then think his service is ended? No, then he knows his service doth begin.
• He took out the two indentures with which the mother was to sign away all right to her two eldest children.
• A few shillings and a tankard make the treasure mine, I promising as extra to send a huge bundle of ancient indentures in place of the precious manuscript.
• Wells obtained at sixteen after he had broken his indentures with the Southsea draper.

Similar words containing DENTURE without suffix s and without prefix in

denture8 dentures9 indenture10 indentured12 indentureship19 indentureships20

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