The person who endows an eleemosynary corporation or institution , orsupplies the funds for its establishment . See FOUNDATION.
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FOUNDEROSA
Founderous; out of repair, as a road. Cro. Car. 300.
FOUNDERS’ SHARES
Stock issued to an entity’s originators. Entitled to after tax profits, no matter how much. Typically do not recognize any return or profit until common or ordinary stock holder dividend […]
FOUNDLING
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent orguardian, its relatives being unknown. It has a settlement in the district where found.
FOUR
Fr. In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned bythe seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread forbaking. […]
FOUR COLOR PROCESS
Full-color printing technique. All colors of the spectrum exist from proper proportion mixes. Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black together are called CMYK, used for the mixtures. These are also called […]
FOUR CORNERS
The face of a written instrument . That which is contained on theface of a deed (without any aid from the knowledge of the circumstances under which itis made) is […]
FOUR P’S OF MARKETING
Product, price, place ( distribution ), and promotion. Four major factors controllable in any marketing mix .
FOUR P’S OF PERSUASION
Power, positioning , politeness and performance . These enhance one’s ability to persuade others in one’s work and personal life; focused around perception .
FOUR SEAS
The seas surrounding England. These were divided into the Western,including the Scotch and Irish; the Northern, or North sea; the Eastern, being theGerman ocean; the Southern, being the British channel.
FOUR STEPS OF TRAINING
(1) preparation , (2) presentation , (3) performance trial, and (4) follow through are the four essential steps in an on-the-job training programs.
FOUR UNITIES
Unity of interest , possession, time, title. Joint-tenancy agreement’s legal requirements . (1) Unity of interest is the requirement that in duration, extent, and nature, all joint-tenants must have the […]
FOURCHER
Fr. To fork. This was a method of delaying an action anciently resortedto by defendants when two of them were joined in the suit. Instead of appearingtogether, each would appear […]
FOURIER ANALYSIS
An important tool in the disparate fields of physical sciences and sales forecasting , for example. Concept basis that any graph, which is the representation of a function, is composed […]
FOURIERISM
A form of socialism. See 1 Mill, Pol. Ec. 2G0.
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
See Amendments to constitution .
FOURTH DIMENSION
Time. The three dimensions of length, width, and height are required for locating a point in space. This fourth dimension is required for locating an event at that point.
FOURTH GENERATION LANGUAGE (4GL)
End- user friendly , high-level computer language. Provides the capability for non-programmers to write fairly short programs as queries to databases to generate custom reports. An example is IBM’s Structured […]
FOURTH PARTY LOGISTICS (4PL)
Specialist firm (the fourth party) hired to coordinate two or more third-parties’ activities. An entity contract operational logistics to these outsourcing third-party specialists.
FOWLS OF WARREN
Such fowls as are preserved under the game laws in warrens.According to Manwood, these are partridges and pheasants. According to Coke, theyare partridges, rails, quails, woodcocks, pheasants, mallards, and herons. […]
FOX’S LIBEL ACT
In English law . This was the statute 52 Geo. III. c. 00, whichsecured to juries, upon the trial of indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing ageneral verdict of […]
FOY
L. Fr. Faith; allegiance; fidelity.
FPS SYSTEM
Foot-Pound-Second. Replaced since 1960 by the Metric units system world-wide except for a few countries, like the US. Originally a system of units begun in the UK. Known also as […]
FR
A Latin abbreviation for “fragmen- turn,” a fragment, used in citations to theDigest or Pandects in the Corpus Juris Oi- vilis of Justinian, the several extracts fromjuristic writings of which […]
FRACTAL MARKET HYPOTHESIS (FMH)
New capital-market theory to explain and predict market behavior. Done by combining fractals and chaos theory with traditional quantitative methods. Daily randomness of the market and anomalies such as market […]