SINKER
When a sinking fund provision is included in a bonds indenture.
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When a sinking fund provision is included in a bonds indenture.
Illegally enticing business from favored clients using allocations to establish a quid pro quo arrangement.
A bank is protected if a customer defaults on a transaction by a standby letter of credit giving the bank the authority to pay the beneficiary and go after the customer to
When a plaintiff makes a motion to prove harm has occurred without having to show how or why to collect damages.
A receiver payer swap where the buyer can enter a swap at a predetermined rate in the future.
A false or fictitious defense, interposed in bad faith, and manifestly untrue, insufficient, or irrelevant on its face.
In practice. A writ allowed a plaintiff in replevin, where thedefendant has obtained judgment for return of the goods, by default on nonsuit, inorder to have the same distress again delivered to
In English practice. In the action of ejectment, it was formerly customary, in case there were any doubt as to thelegal estate being in the plaintiff, to insert in the declaration several
A declaration in ejectment might containeither one demise or several. When it contained only one, it was called a “declarationwith a single demise.”
The measure of diligence and skill exercised by a good business manin his particular specialty, which must be commensurate with the duty to be performedand the individual circumstances of the case; not
A supplementary distress for rent in arrear, allowed by law in some cases, where thegoods seized under the first distress are not of sufficient value to satisfy the claim.
A law prescribing the manner of the distribution of the estateof an intestate among his heirs or relatives. Such statutes exist in all the states.
One paid in scrip, or in certificates of the ownership of a corresponding amount of capital stock of thecompanv thereafter to be issued. Bailey v. Railroad Co., 22 Wall. 604, 22 L.
means the amount owned by the company over and above its capital and actual liabilities. People v. Cotn’rs of Taxes, 70 N. Y. 74.
One which is appurtenant to the primary or actual easement; every easement includes such “secondary easements,” that is. the right to do such things as are necessary for the full enjoyment of
An election for a particular emergency; out of the regularcourse; as one held to fill a vacancy arising by death of the incumbent of the office.Electiones fiant rite et libere sine in-
Span. In Spanish law. A slave. Las Partidas, pt 4, tit. 21, 1. 1.
The state of a person who does not speak, or of one who refrains from speaking. In the law of estoppel, “silence” implies knowledge and an opportunity to act upon it. Pence
Sine possessione mncapio procedere non potest. There can be no prescription without possession.
In English practice. Officers of tlie court of chancery, who received and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and signed dockets of decrees, etc.,