(1) A marketleading COMMON STOCK , BOND, or sector index that acts as a proxy for broader sentiment and movement in the market. Tradable benchmarks, which generally feature significant LIQUIDITY […]

Information gotten from the industry to achieve the highest level of performance .

A tool such as Lehman Brothers ‘ aggregate bond index that sets the baseline for the comparison of like items.

The least amount accepted on nongovernment stocks by an investor.

A job that pay data and other information is available for. It is used to make pay comparisons.

The standards used to gauge strategies and outcomes of a particular goal, department, method, or merchandise offered by a company so improvements can be made.

A government-set auto insurance rate used in Canada. An insurance company that sets its rates within a certain range of the benchmark rate does not need government approval to use […]

A comparison of a firms organizational methods, products, offerings, and goals with other similar firms.

Well; In proper form; legally ; sufficiently.

4 Coke, 26. Blessed is the exposition when anything is saved from destruction . It Is a laudable interpretation which gives effect to the instrument , and does not allow […]

An individual who financially assists another individual, such as someone who contributes to charitable organizations, or a family member that provides cash to another family member for school, etc.

In ecclesiastical law . In its technical sense, this term includes ecclesiastical preferments to which rank or public office is attached, otherwise described as ecclesiastical dignities or offices, such as […]

A term which corresponds to the bene/icium in- ventarii of Roman law, and substantially to the English law doctrine that the executor properly accounting is only liable to the extent […]

Benefit of discussion . The right of a guarantor to require that the creditor should exhaust his recourse against the principal debtor before having recourse to the guarantor himself.

Benefit of division; right of contribution as between co-sureties .

In French law . A benefit or advantage, and particularly a privilege given by the law rather than by the agreement of the parties.

The person in whose favor a promissory note or bill of exchange is payable; or any person in whose favor a contract of any description is executed. Arg. Fr. Merc. […]

Tending to the benefit of a person; yielding a profit, advantage, or benefit; enjoying or entitled to a benefit or profit. In re Importers’ Exchange (Com. PI.) 2 N. Y. […]

Another name for a benefit society. See BENEFIT.

a clause in a will that gives the inheritor a direct interest in the property of the person who made the will.

The enjoyment which a man has of an estate in his own right and for his own benefit, and not as trustee for another. 11 H. L. Cas. 271.

An estate in expectancy is one where the right to the possession is postponed to a future period, and is “beneficial” where the devisee takes solely for his own use […]

Profit, benefit, or advantage resulting from a contract, or the ownership of an estate as distinct from the legal ownership or control.

When an owner of a property can use it before all the construction is completed.

The actual owner of securities and the rightful recipient of the benefits accorded; the beneficial owner is often different from the title holder (generally a financial institution holding the securities […]