the name that is given to a person who is appointed by a body like the House of Representatives , the Senate or other organisation to keep order at meetings.

A serial bond paying approximately the same amount of interest and principal each year.

An internal or external bus designed so computers can send information back and forth to and from each other.

A group of bonds that mature over successive years issued by a single company. Refer to series bond .

The single direction of communications in one direction only.

A correlation that is undesirable but remains undetected by statistical techniques. A non-random pattern.

An entrepreneur who is always coming up with a new idea to start a new business and does not stay with that business very long before he is on to […]

Has been replaced with point-to-point protocol or PPP. Was the protocol used in connecting to the internet by a dial up connection .

An identification code of 18 characters used for mainly non-standard mix containers.it has a 2 character application identifier followed by 1 digit packaging type, country code , 6 digit manufacturer […]

A transmission of data in one direction with a stop and start bit following an 8 digit character.

The continuing violation or discrimination ruled by a law.

A method of identifying data transactions that occur concurrently with one another but are independent of one another.

Lat Severally; separately; Individually ; one by one.

A group of bonds under the same indenture that are issued by the same company. Each bond has different coupon rates and maturity dates. Refer to serial bond .

A classic type face that has extensions at each termination in the letter.

Important; weighty; moment- ‘ ous, and not trifling; as in the phrases “serious bodily harm ,” “serious personal injury ,” etc. Lawlor v. People, 74 111. 231; Union Mut. L. […]

a term that is used for the improper behaviour that is of major proportions and that is carried out intentionally.

When a mortgage is in danger of going into default as payments are greater than 90 days late.

A violation of a law that is significant in effect and carries more than a 6 month punishment.

The same word etymologic- ally with “sergeant,” but the latter spelling is more commonly employed in the designation of military and police officers, (see SER- GEANT,) while the former is […]

A species of tenure by knight service, which was due to the king only, and was distinguished into grand and petit serjeanty. The tenant holding by grand serjeanty was bound, […]

In old English law . Oath; an oath. Sermo index animi. 5 Coke, 118. Speech is an index of the mind. Sermo relatns ad personam intelllgi debet de conditions personae. […]

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or […]

Notched on the edge; cut in notches like the teeth of a saw. This was anciently the method of trimming the top or edge of a deed of indenture. See […]

in feudal law, was where a tenant, besides payment of a certain rent, found one or more workmen for his lord’s service. Tomlins. Servanda est consuetudo loci ubi cansa agitur. […]