Borrowing at multiple levels within the corporate structure, such as the holding company and a primary operating subsidiary. Double leverage is generally considered to be a more accurate reflection of […]

double pleading. See DUPLICITY; PLEA; PLEADING.

A possibility upon a possibility. 2 Bl. Comm. 170.

An illegal attempt by an INSURED to file multiple CLAIMS on a single loss event with multiple INSURERS. Double recovery violates the principle of INDEMNITY, which states that an INSURANCE […]

In English law . Rent payable by a tenant who continues in possession after the time for which he has given notice to quit, untilthe time of his quitting possession. […]

The taxing of the same item or piece of property twice to the same person, or taxing it as theproperty of one person and again as the property of another; […]

A TECHNICAL ANALYSIS charting formation that depicts two RESISTANCE LEVELS followed by a BREAKOUT. The multiple declines suggest resistance on the upside and possible weakness on the downside. Also known […]

In patent law . An application of a principle or process, previously known and applied, to some new use, but which does not lead to a new result or the […]

In English law . This is a penalty on a tenant holding over after his landlord’s notice to quit. By 4 Geo. II. c. 28. $1. it is enacted that […]

This was when a common recovery was had, and an estate of freehold was first conveyed to anyindifferent person against whom the prcccipe was brought, and then he vouched thetenant […]

When a tenant bound to repair suffers a house to be wasted, and then unlawfully fells timber to repair it, he issaid-to commit double waste . Co. Litt. 53.

A will in which two persons join, each leaving his property and estate to the other, so that the survivor takes thewhole. Evans v. Smith, 28 Ga. 98, 73 Am. […]

Letters-patent. Cowell.

A right granted by investors to an issuer of BONDS that allows the issuer to double the amount of the SINKING FUND provision in order to accelerate repayment and ultimate […]

Uncertainty of mind; the absence of a settled opinion or conviction; theattitude of mind towards the acceptance of or belief in a proposition , theory, orstatement, in which the judgment […]

One as to the validity of which there exists some doubt, either asto matter of fact or of law; one which invites or exposes the party holding it tolitigation. Distinguished […]

L. Fr. A gift. Otherwise written “don” and “done.” The thirty-fourth chapter of Britton is entitled “De Douns.”

Doves are animals ferce natures, and not the subject of larceny unless theyare in the owner’s custody; as, for example, in a dove-house, or when in the nestbefore they can […]

Subject to be charged with dower ; as dowable lands. Entitled or entitling to dower. Thus, a dowable interest in lands is such as entitles the owner to have such […]

A BENCHMARK priceweighted index of the US stock market, comprised of 30 LARGE CAP STOCKS representing the industrial sector; the index is rebalanced periodically as industries and corporate leadership change. […]

A widow who is endowed, or who has a jointure in lieu of dower. InEngland, this is a title or addition given to the widows of princes, dukes, earls, audother […]

The widow of the king. As such she enjoys most of the privileges belonging to her as queen consort. It is nottreason to conspire her death or violate her chastity, […]

The provision wBich the law makes for a widow out of the lauds or tenementsof her husband, for her support and the nurture of her children. Co. Litt. 30a;2 Bl. […]

Dower at the church door or porch. An ancient kind ofdower in England, where a man. (being tenant in fee-simple, of full age,) openly at thechurch door, where all marriages […]

a law in some states where a widow has the right to one third of her husband’s land.