deed indented

  • 11deed poll — noun English Law a legal deed made and executed by one party only, especially to formalize a change of a person s name. Origin C16: so named because the parchment was ‘polled’ or cut cleanly, not indented at the edges as in the case of a deed… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 12deed poll — [16] Contrary to what the term’s modern pronunciation might seem to suggest, with the main stress on its first element rather than its second, a deed poll is a sort of deed, not a sort of poll. It originally referred to a legal document made and… …

    Word origins

  • 13deed poll — noun (plural deeds poll) Etymology: 1deed + poll, adjective, having the edges cut even rather than indented, from 2poll Date: 1574 British a deed (as to change one s name) made and executed by only one party …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 14indented deed — See indenture …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 15indenture — /indentyar/ In business financing, a written agreement under which bonds and debentures are issued, setting forth form of bond, maturity date, amount of issue, description of pledged assets, interest rate, and other terms. Typically, the contract …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 16indenture — /indentyar/ In business financing, a written agreement under which bonds and debentures are issued, setting forth form of bond, maturity date, amount of issue, description of pledged assets, interest rate, and other terms. Typically, the contract …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 17Charitable Bequests —     Civil Law Concerning Charitable Bequests     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Civil Law Concerning Charitable Bequests     The word charity, as employed by the courts and used as descriptive of uses and trusts which will he upheld as charitable, has …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 18indenture — in·den·ture /in den chər/ n [Old French endenture an indented document, from endenter to indent (divide a document into sections with irregular edges that can be matched for authentication), from en thoroughly + dent tooth] 1: a document stating… …

    Law dictionary

  • 19indent — I indent, noun A certificate or indented certificate issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution for the principal or interest of the public debt II indent, verb To cut in a serrated or wavy line. In old… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 20indent — I indent, noun A certificate or indented certificate issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution for the principal or interest of the public debt II indent, verb To cut in a serrated or wavy line. In old… …

    Black's law dictionary