a term life insurance that has not got a surrender value but that can be converted to ordinary life insurance with a cash value.

A mathematical measure that quantifies the sensitivity of an ASSET to large changes in price or YIELD. In OPTION contracts convexity (commonly termed GAMMA) measures the change in DELTA for […]

To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed or instrument under seal. To convey real estate […]

In pleading. Introduction or inducement .

One whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs, or other legal papers, or to examine titles to real estate . 14 St. at Large, 118. He […]

A term including both the science and act of transferring titles to real estate from one man to another. Conveyancing is that part of the lawyer’s business which relates to […]

Certain counsel, not less than six in number, appointed by the lord chancellor , for the purpose of assisting the court of chancery , or any judge thereof, with their […]

In the civil law . The name of a species of slander or injury uttered in public, and which charged some one with some act contra bonos mores .

This term applies to a person who has been found guilty of committing a crime or a misdemeanor or to find an accused guilty of crime.

One who has been condemned by a court One who has been adjudged guilty of a crime or misdemeanor . Usually spoken of condemned felons or the prisoners in penitentiaries. […]

To condemn after judicial Investigation ; to find a man guilty of a criminal charge . The word was formerly used also in the sense of finding against the defendant […]

This term has a definite signification in law, and means that a judgment of final condemnation has been pronounced against the accused. Gallagher v. State, 10 Tex. App. 409.

In practice . In a general sense, the result of a criminal trial which ends in a judgment or sentence that the prisoner is guilty as charged. Finding a person […]

Such as is sufficient to establish the proposition In question, beyond hesitation, ambiguity, or reasonable doubt , in an unprejudiced mind. Evans v. Rugee, 57 Wis. G23, 10 N. W. […]

A tenure by which a tenant was bound to provide meat and drink lor his lord at least once in the year. Cowell

In ecclesiastical law . The general assembly of the clergy to consult upon ecclesiastical matters.

A naval force, under the command of an officer appointed by government, for the protection of merchant-ships and others, during the whole voyage, or such part of it as is […]

The practice of liberally interpreting, or manipulating, accounting rules in order to convey a stronger financial position . Smoothing income flows, reversing RESERVES, and capitalizing costs that should be expensed […]

In the law of homicide. Calmness or tranquillity; the undisturbed possession of one’s faculties and reason; the absence of violent passion, fury, or uncontrollable excitement.

In the US markets, the period between the filing of a final PROSPECTUS and the offering of a NEW ISSUE of securities to public investors. The cooling off period is […]

Time to recover “cool blood” after severe excitement or provocation ; time for the mind to become so calm and sedate as that it is supposed to contemplate, comprehend, and […]

This term applies to an apartment where the tenant has interest in owning the building and he has a lease that entitles him to occupancy of his apartment.

the name given to a group of people who have come together to achieve a common goal.

In old English law . The head or branches of a tree cut down ; though coopcrtio arborum is rather the bark of timber trees felled, and the chumps and […]

In forest law. A covert; a thicket (dumdum) or shelter for wild beasts in a forest. Spelman.