Total value of a company after subtracting out liabilities and debt.

Same as an option. Opportunity to purchase specific at a set price by a set date of expiration.

In patent law . Any act or substance which is known in the arts as aproper substitute for some other act or substance employed as an element in the invention,whose […]

Calculated yearly cost for owning an asset, tallied up to a to-date, life-time cost of ownership.

A measure of the number of years it takes for an investor to recover the initial CONVERSION PREMIUM paid in acquiring a CONVERTIBLE BOND , typically computed as: where Convprem […]

Job completion resource cost, in terms of individual laborers, based on a per-day rate of results on job work done to-date. Holidays, vacations, actual sick leave, and leave with or […]

Projected production units count of an item for a specific period using a specific alternate material or for projecting over a larger accounting time-period. Benchmark for establishing departmental costs baseline.

Having a double or several meanings or senses. See AMBIGUITY.

A kind of rack for extorting confessions

A horse equipped with saddle and furniture

the abbreviation for a proposed amendment, Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution .

A maple tree. Not to be confounded with arabilis, (arable land.)

Known also as rewritable drives and media.

Type of motherboard ROM used for long-term reused information , such as system BIOS, hardware configurations, and other defined, pre-set information. This ROM can be reused, but only for the […]

The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England,particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offensesagainst religion and morality should be punished by […]

The obliteration of words or marks from a written instrument by rubbing,scraping, or scratching them out. Also the place in a document where a word or wordshave been so removed. […]

A guarantee made by an accredited institution that an investment vehicle’s term changes are legitimate . Synonymous to a notary public signing a document. An affiliated representative of the associated […]

In the civil law . To be divided. Judicium familial crciscundw, a suitfor the partition of an inheritance . Inst. 4, 17, 4. An ancient phrase derived from theTwelve Tables. […]

One of the formal words of incorporation in royal charters. “We do, incorporate ,erect, ordain, name, constitute, and establish.”

Baising up; building; a completed building. In a statute on the “erection”of wooden buildings, this term does not include repairing, alteration, enlarging, orremoval. See Shaw v. Hitchcock, 119 Mass. 256; […]

Lat. Therefore; hence; because.

In the civil law . Undertakers of work; contractors. Cod. 4, 59.

Study of the human in the workplace. Focus is on the mental and physical stresses, necessary abilities and constraints, various workplace settings. Anatomical, physiological , and psychological activity or human […]

A term of the Irish Brehon law, denoting a pecuniary mulct or recompensewhich a murderer was judicially condemned to pay to the family or relatives of hisvictim. It corresponded to […]

We erect. One of the words by which a corporation may be created inEngland by the king’s charter. 1 Bl. Comm. 473.