(1) A formal agreement conveying real estate from one party to another and binding both parties with obligations. (2) An agreement issuing corporate bonds and debentures, often between a corporation and an indenture trustee, who holds title to the trust property and carries out the terms of the agreement. (3) Historically, a legal contract made into several copies with the edges indented to mark them as authentic. (4) Historically, an agreement in which a person in the British colonies agreed...