INDENTURE

A deed to which two or more persons are parties, and in which these enter into reciprocal and corresponding grants or obligations towards each other; whereas a deed-poll is properly one in which only the party making it executes it or binds himself by it as a deed, though the grantors or grantees therein may be several in number. See INDENT, V. Indenture of apprenticeship. A contract in two parts, by which a person, generally a minor, is bound to serve another in his trade, art or occupation for a stated time, on condition of being instructed in the same.