SLEEPING BEAUTY
A firm that is failing that becomes a prime takeover possibility.
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A firm that is failing that becomes a prime takeover possibility.
Finite reinsurance where premium is paid to an experience account every year for the contracts duration. The account generates a rate that covers loss. If anything is left at maturation it is
A government requirement that contractors, businesses, and fiduciaries whose work affects public interest maintain a security bond to ensure sufficient fortification in case the contract individual breaks contract.
A US market Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities.
The contract syndicate members agree to. It designates the structure, rules, and time period. AKA underwriting agreement. Refer to subscription agreement.
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-
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 old English law, a seal, or a contracted or abbreviated signature used as a seal.
Lat In the civil law. Wood;
Each ; as in the expression “all and singular.” Also, individual.
Practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, science, or trade, combined with tbe ability to apply them in practice in a proper and approved manner and with
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