Indentures

I put my signature to certain indentures, received my pottage, and fled from his presence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pinned to the parchment of one of the indentures was a letter, which Winterborne had never seen before. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Indentured Servants. \% -- In the case of such as came voluntarily, carefully drawn agreements called indentures would be made in writing. ❋ John Bach McMaster (1892)

Pinned to the parchment of one of the indentures was a letter, which ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

However, custom has taken off the edge of it since; namely, that they who did thus contract matrimony should forfeit their indentures, that is to say, should lose the benefit of their whole service, and not be made free. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

What portion of himself or herself any one complicated physical and psychological human being really and truly 'conveys' to another by means of the simple contract known as the "plighted troth" or that of a larger deed called the called the "solemnization of matrimony", is a riddle difficult of solution; and as to how much one may claim on the strength of one or other of these indentures, that is a more difficult problem still. ❋ Unknown (1899)

But I was told that there, in fact, was those kind of indentures in the second column also, the vote for U.S. S.nator. ❋ Unknown (2000)

After a three year apprenticeship - "indentures" they called it - I was ready to cover court without being chaperoned by a senior. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Apparently, the revolutionary spirit broadened the discourse of freedom in a way that threw indentures into a bad light, and runaway apprentices became an intractable problem. ❋ Lapham's Quarterly (2011)

These indentures spelled out mutual obligations, more or less formally -- the apprentice would work for such and such a period, at tasks relevant to the craft. ❋ Lapham's Quarterly (2011)

In the English-speaking world, a typical term of "indenture" lasted seven years; the mostly male apprentices usually took up their indentures, with a nudge or a shove from their family, when they were around 14 years old, the common-law "age of discretion." ❋ Lapham's Quarterly (2011)

Some scholars assert that the first universities -- early gatherings of scholars at Bologna, Paris, Oxford, and elsewhere -- fancied themselves guilds of scholars, and that everything from set terms of student enrollment (inspired by indentures) to the concept of the dissertation (the "masterpiece" of a scholarly apprenticeship) drew on the model of guild apprenticeships. ❋ Lapham's Quarterly (2011)

Our indentures finally finished, we found ourselves contemplating the endless possibilities, the lives we wanted to be living, now that we had the freedom to choose. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

Debtholders may extend credit or buy bonds along with rights as outlined in various debt covenants and indentures, as well as having rights in bankruptcy court. ❋ Unknown (2010)