a term where a wrong will be shared between 2 or more people as they are responsible jointly.
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JOINT VENTURE
See partnership .
JOINT WILL
a will that contains the wills of 2 or more people and the disposing of jointly owned property.
JOINT-STOCK BANKS
In English law . Joint- stock companies for the purpose of banking. They are regulated, according to the date of their incorporation , by charter, or by 7 Geo. IV. […]
JOINT-STOCK CORPORATION
This differs from a joint- stock company in being regularly incorporated, instead of being a mere partnership , but resembles it in having a capital divided into shares of stock. […]
JOINTCREDITORS
Persons jointly entitled to require satisfaction of the same debt or demand.
JOINTLY
Acting together or in concert or co-operation ; holding in common or interdependently, not separately. Reclamation Dist. v. Parvin, 67 Cal. 501, 8 Pac. 43; Gold & Stock Tel. Co. […]
JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY
A full loan balance is a liability to the signatories as a group or from each of them individually, with enough free assets to satisfy the lender’s claim. The lender […]
JOINTLY-OWNED PROPERTY
Two or more owners having property in their names.
JOINTRESS, JOINTURESS
A woman who has an estate settled on her by her hus- band, to hold during her life, if she survive him. Co. Litt. 46.
JOINTURE
A freehold estate in lands or tenements secured to the wife, and to take effect on the decease of the husband, and to continue during her life at the least, […]
JONCARIA, or JUNCARIA
In old English law . Land where rushes grow. Co. Litt. 5a.
JORNALE
In old English law . As much land as could be plowed in one day. Spelman.
JOUR
A French word, signifying “day.” It is used in our old law-books; as “tout jours,” forever.
JOURNAL
A daily book; a book in which entries are made or events recorded from day to day. In maritime law, the journal (otherwise called “log” or “log-book”) is a book […]
JOURNAL ENTRY
journal voucher financial data recorded so that credits equal debits. An audit trail of business transactions in a journal. an organization ‘s financial position and the effects of the transactions […]
JOURNAL PRINTER
Electronic cash register (ECR) or point of sale (POS) systems remote printer. Records cash transactions on a narrow (20column) paper tape at retail locations. An example is a supermarket checkout […]
JOURNAL PROPER
Miscellaneous credit transactions as original entries that do not fit into other recorded books. Books with used for opening entries , closing entries , transfer entries, adjustment entries, rectification entries, […]
JOURNAL VOUCHER
Every financial transaction hat meets defined requirements has this prepared, written authorization .
JOURNALING
Logging of all datafile updates in database management, simultaneously, real time. The original file, damaged or destroyed, uses this log as an audit trail to reconstruct the database.
JOURNALIST
These are called “shield laws” and are enacted to give journalists and media people the permission to decline to revel confidential information sources.
JOURNALIZING
A double entry bookkeeping system of financial data pertaining to a specific transaction , in a journal usually taken from a journal voucher . Needed transaction data: (1) date done; […]
JOURNEY
The original signification of this word was a day’s travel. It is now applied to a travel by land from place to place, without restriction of time. But, when thus […]
JOURNEY-HOPPERS
In English law . Regrators of yarn. 8 Hen. VI. c. 5.
JOURNEYMAN
A workman hired by tlie day, or other given time. Hart v. Ald- ridge, 1 Cowp. 5G; Butler v. Clark, 46 Ga. 408.