The amount taken or added to pre tax profit. This depends on the depreciation of the asset. AKA balanced change.

When an action is returned in reaction to what caused it. It keeps things stable in a system.The difference between where a system should be and where it is is […]

Closing accounts at the end of a period. The total debt and credit is reconsiled determining profit or loss.

The standard-bearer of the Knights Templar.

Small galleries of wood or stone on the outside of houses. The erection of them is regulated In London by the building acts.

In Spanish law. Waste land; land that is neither arable nor pasture. White New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6,

A pack or certain quantity of goods or merchandise , wrapped or packed up in cloth and corded round very tightly, marked and numbered with figures corresponding to those in […]

In French marine law. A buoy.

In the civil law . A teacher; one who has the care of youth; a tutor; a guardian. Du Cange; Spelman.

When balls serve as friction in a bearing. It is designed to reduce friction.

A guess with some knowledge. It should fall in a reasonable range.

In marine insurance . There is considerable analogy between ballast and dunnage. The former is used for trimming the ship, and bringing it down to a draft of water proper […]

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast from the bottom of a port or harbor.

An ancient writ to remove a bailiff from his office for want of sufficient land in the bailiwick. Reg. Orig. 78.

When rent changes from being low at the start, it than goes up and goes back down towards the end of the rent arrangement .

A loan with a balloon payment . It can be at the end or the start of the loan. Its done when cash is expected to come in at the […]

This term applies to an installment loan with interest that provides for a larger final payment that is known as the balloon payment .

A payment made on a loan that is highe than the ones before it. It is done at the end of the period. It pays left after the last payment.

In the law of elections. A slip of paper bearing the names of the offices to be filled at the particular election and the names of the candidates for whom […]

A case made of wood for receiving ballots.

In medical jurisprudence . A test for pregnancy by palpation with the finger inserted in the vagina to the mouth of the uterus. The tip of the finger being quickly […]

In the Roman law. Those who stole the clothes of bathers in the public baths. 4 Bl. Comm. 230.

The freight market that ships dry bulk cargo. A broker arranges the shipping. It’s situated in London and also sells ships and shipping agreements. It was started in 1744. The […]

A report of oceanic freight that is used to assess future rates. The dry, wet, and bulk data is used for this calculation.

Lat In old English law . A bailiwick, or jurisdiction .