The total costs a firm bears in funding its operations through DEBT and EQUITY, equal to the rate of return needed to induce CAPITAL suppliers to invest or lend. The […]

The FUTURE VALUE of costs and benefits associated with holding an ASSET, which typically includes the cost of financing, INSURANCE, transportation and/or storage, less benefits derived from lending the asset […]

a clause that provides for the adjustment of prices for goods and services that according to cost of living changes.

The implicit or explicit price a company must pay to manage its RISK exposures; it is typically comprised of the expected costs and direct and indirect losses arising from RISK […]

A book In which a number of adventurers who have obtained permission to work a lode, and have agreed to share the enterprise in certain proportions, enter the agreement, and […]

the agreement that fixes the amount to be paid to a contractor for costs of materials and labour.

The declared value of imported goods, including the cost of purchase and associated INSURANCE and shipping charges from the point of export to the point of import. CIF does not […]

A pecuniary allowance, made to the successful party, (and recoverable from the losing party,) for his expenses in prosecuting or defending a suit or a distinct proceeding within a suit. […]

Increased costs, costs of increase. Costs adjudged by the court in addition to those assessed by the jury. Day v. Woodworth, 13 How. 372, 14 L. Ed. 1S1. Those extra […]

These are the monies owed to the receiver who is administering a business that has gone bankrupt.

the term given to describe the costs involved when prosecuting a suit.

Costs which are incurred in preparing for the trial of a cause on a specified day, consisting of witnesses’ fees, and other fees of attendance. Arciib. N. Prac. 281.

When an order is made by an appellate court reversing a judgment, with “costs to abide the event,” the costs intended by the order include those of the appeal, so […]

In Spanish law. Custom ; an unwritten law established by usage, during a long space of time. Las Partidas , pt. 1, tit 2, 1. 4.

A cot or hut Blount

In old English law . A cottage

In old English law . A cottager, who held in free socage, and paid a stated fine or rent in provisions or money, with some occasional personal services

Anciently, a kind of peasantry who were outlaws: robbers. Blount

In feudal law. A servile tenant, who held In mere villenage; his person, issue, and goods were disposable at the lord’s pleasure.

A fashionable association , or a knot of persons forming a particular circle. The origin of the term was purely commercial, signifying an association, in which each member furnished his […]

In old records. A place where there is no woo

In old English law . Land held by a cottager, whether in socage or villenage. Cowell.

In old English law . The little seat or mansion belonging to a small farm.

The seat of a cottage with the land belonging to it. Spelman.

A cottager or cottage-holder who held by servile tenure and was bound to do the work of the lord. Cowell