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TRACE ELEMENTS

Elements such as cobalt, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, selenium occurring in very small amounts, often less than 1 to 10 parts per million, necessary for a living organisms growth, health and development.

TRACEABILITY

1. Accounting. Ability of tracking a piece of financial information in recorded data or with an audit trail. 2. Cost accounting. Ability of assigning a direct cost to an activity based on

TRACEABLE COST

Expense assigned to an activity or cost object based on cause and effect relationships.

TRACER

Inquiry that is started to trace a piece of information back to the document it originated from, or to find a shipments that is lost or delayed.

NON-TRACEABLE COMMON COST

Cost that cannot be assigned to any task or function due to the lack of sufficient data for its assignment. As such, it assigned on an arbitary basis.

GRACE PERIOD

Additional time scheduled or allocated to complete a task, such as complying with a regulation, meeting an obligation, or obtaining an agreement.

GRACE PERIOD CLAUSE

Loan agreement point that a borrower cam skip installments if the borrower prepaid some of the loan. The skipped installments can not exceed the amount prepaid.

GRACE

This word is commonly used in contradistinction to “right.” Thus, in St. 22Edw. III., the lord chancellor was instructed to take cognizance of matters of grace,being such subjects of equity jurisdiction as

GRACE, DAYS OF

Time of indulgence granted to an acceptor or maker for the paymentof his bill of exchange or note. It was originally a gratuitous favor, (hence thename,) but custom has rendered it a

DISGRACE

Ignominy; shame; dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. 13 How. State Tr. 17, 334.

EMBRACEOR

A person guilty of the offense of embracery, (g. v.) See Co. Litt 369.

EMBRACERY

In criminal law. This offense consists in the attempt to influence a jurycorruptly to one side or the other, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, entertainments,douceurs, and the like. The person guilty of it

TRACE A

In old English law. The track or trace of a felon, by which he was pursued with the hue and cry; a foot-step, hoof- print, or wheel-track. Bract, fols. llii, 1216.

RACE

A tribe, people, or nation, belonging or supposed to belong to the same stock or lineage. “Race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Const U. S., Am. XV.

RACE-WAY

An artificial canal dug in the earth; a channel cut in the ground. Wilder v. De Coil. 26 Minn. 17, 1 N. W. 48. The channel for the current that drives a

OF GRACE

A term applied to any permission or license granted to a party in the course of a judicial proceeding which is not claimable as a matter of course or of right, but

DAYS OF GRACE

A number of days allowed, as a matter of favor or grace, to a person who has to perform some act, or make some payment, after the time originally limited for the