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I don't know particularly about real-estate law, but a "deed indenture" is an agreement between two parties, as opposed to a "deed poll", a deed executed by a single person. The terminology comes from pre-typing days. For a deed poll, the deed was simply written out on a singl sheet of paper with clean cut ("polled") edges, then registered with the appropriate authority. That is why you change your name by "deed poll" = you don't need another party to agree with it. A "deed indenture", by contrast, was written out twice, side by side, on one sheet of paper - one copy for each party. After signing by both parties, the deed was then cut in two with deliberately jagged cuts, producing jagged "teeth" or "indentures". When the two parts met again, the matching cuts would prove they were the halves of the same contract. Thus, even if you altered your part, the other party could produce theirs unaltered but matching your indentures.
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