In finance, capital structure refers to the way a corporation finances its assets through some combination of equity, debt, or hybrid securities. A firm’s capital structure is then the composition […]

As a hedge fund strategy it involves structuring trades using different instruments relating to a single issuer. For example taking a long position in the debt of a company while […]

A lump sum of money payable to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment.

Capital surplus (also referred to as additional paid in capital, paid in capital in excess of par or share premium , is an accounting term which frequently appears as a […]

A transaction affecting non-current items such as fixed assets , long-term debt, or share capital , rather than revenue transactions.

Calculated by dividing annual sales by average stockholder equity (net worth). The ratio indicates how much a company could grow its current capital investment level. Low capital turnover generally corresponds […]

Affecting or relating to the head or life of a person; entailing the ultimate penalty. Thus, a capital crime is one punishable with death. Walker v. State, 28 Tex. App. […]

In political economy, that portion of the produce of industry existing in a country, which may be made directly available, either for the support of human existence, or the facilitating […]

A thing which Is stolen, or the value of it. Blount.

Live cattle. Blount.

In old English law . Chief, principal; at the head. A term applied to persons, places, judicial proceedings , and some kinds of property.

In old English law . Chief baron . Capitalis barn scaccurii domini rents, chid’ baron of the exchequer. Townsh. PI. 211.

Chief warden or magistrate ; mayor. Fleta, lib. 2, c.

The chief or principal debtor, as distinguished from a surety, (plcgius.)

Chief lord. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 12.

The chief justiciary ; the principal minister of state, and guardian of the realm in the king’s absence. This ofiice originated under William the Conqueror; but its power was greatly […]

Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. The title of the chief justice of the king’s bench , first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry […]

Chief justice of the bench. The title of the chief justice of the (now) court of common pleas , first mentioned in the first year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, […]

Chief justice of all England. The title of the presiding justice in the court of aula regis. 3 151. Comm. 38; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.

A chief pledge ; a head borough. Townsh. PI. 35.

A chief rent.

A head-land. A piece of land lying at the head of other land.

A business simulation computer game first published in 1995 by Interactive Magic, developed by Enlight for the Macintosh and MS-DOS and designed by Trevor Chan.

a person whose income is derived from an investment.

the structure of a company in reference to its stocks and bonds it has issued and to their worth.