I'm selling a property in Kasoa and I'm told that the King is dead (RIP) and cannot sign the indenture. As someone not from Ghana I don't understand.An indenture is a legal contract that reflects an agreement between two parties. Although the term is most familiarly used to refer to a labor contract. Land Indenture in the Reign of King James. February 1, 1608. Vellum. Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which an individual is under contract to work without a salary for a certain timeframe to repay a loan. An "indenture" is a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies, originally with edges correspondingly indented. The lease and release was the most popular and widespread way to record simple sales of property from the seventeenth century up to 1845. The document is handwritten in ink on an approximately 75cm x 56cm sheet of vellum.