Debenture vs. Indenture

A certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt.

Often indentures A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term.

An unsecured bond issued by a civil or governmental corporation or agency and backed only by the credit standing of the issuer.

A deed executed by more than one party.

A customhouse certificate providing for the payment of a drawback.

An instrument or agreement specifying the terms of a bond or trust.

A certificate that certifies an amount of money owed to someone; a certificate of indebtedness.

A document separated into portions so as to create indentations that allow the holders of the separate portions to match up in order to confirm authenticity.

(obsolete) A certificate of a loan made to the government; a government bond.

To bind into the service of another by indenture.

A type of debt instrument secured only by the general credit or promise to pay of the issuer, not involving any physical assets or collateral, now commonly issued by large, well established corporations with adequate credit ratings.

(legal) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).

A document granting lenders a charge over a borrower’s physical assets, giving them a means to collect a debt, as part of a secured loan.

A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

An indentation; a recess.

A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.

(legal) To bind a person under such a contract.

Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds) are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders.

To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

A bond that is backed by the credit of the issuer but not by any specific collateral

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

A certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt

A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate, sometimes with the edges indented for purpose of identification; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.

A contract by which anyone is bound to service.

To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.

To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.

A concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)

Formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt

A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term

The space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

Bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant;