A division of a sector that is distinct but linked to or related to other elements. See segmentation .

How well a department is performing when compared to thw whole operations of a company.

1. Business. Subdivision of a corporation into departments. Economic regions of activity and geographic regions. 2. Finance. The division of an assets pool into segments that show similar characteristics. 3. […]

The approaches used in order to subdivide a market or population into segments with similar characteristics. Five major strategies, behaviour, benefit, demographic, geographic and psychgraphic segmentation .

A defined area where customers are drawn from that is seperated from other markets. Seperation can be by government bariers, lack of information and barriers.

A customer’s account that is held seperate from a brokerage firms funds.

the act of separating such as in races in a school or other public place. This si illegal and violates US federal laws.

1. A control policy where no person is given more than one area of responsibility . Called seperation of duties.2. Procedures and methods that are established as an internal check […]

in its general signification , means “lord,” but iu law it is particularly applied to the lord of a fee or of a manor; and the fee, dominions, or manor […]

A royalty or preroga tive of the sovereign, whereby an allowance of gold and silver, brought in the mass to be exchanged for coin, is claimed. Cowell. Mintage; the charge […]

A female superior.

In English law . A lordship ; a manor. The rights of a lord, as such, in lands.

the term that is used for the legal title and ownership of property such as real estate .

This is the strict technical expression used to describe the ownership in “an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal hereditament.” The word “seised” is used to express the […]

In old English law . Seised; possessed.

The completion of the feudal investiture , by which the tenant was admitted into the feud, and performed the rights of homage and fealty. Stearns, Beal Act. 2. Possession with […]

L. Lat. Seisin. Seisina facit stipitem. Seisin makes the stock. 2 Bl. Comm. 209; Broom, Max. 525, 528.

a term that means the actual possession of land and is the same as seisin in fact and an actual seisin.

a law that is used for the right to the immediate possession of land.

A writ for delivery of seisin to the lord, of lands and tenements, after the sovereign, in right of his prerogative , had had the year, day, and waste on […]

See SEISIN.

Taking the best beast, etc., where an heriot is due, on the death of the tenant. 2 Bl. Comm. 422.

Bl. Comm. 66.

A shop, shed, or stall in a market ; a wood of sallows or willows; also a sawpit Co. Litt. 4.

Anacronym for the 6 steps in marketing research: 1. Situation analysis ,2. explicit statement of objectives 3. laying down of research startegy and method of data collection 4. Evaluation of […]