Mechanism of contingent capital where the lender gives a commitment to advance money on demand or at a future date.

The assumption of liability by a bank that receives a fee for guaranteeing payment to investors in the event a firm doesn

a right of people to challenge the conduct of another person in a court.

A governments obligations of expenditure not requiring a vote or any statutory provisions.

This means to temporarily place a juror aside by the prosecuting attorney until the entire panel of jurors has been decided.

the act of standing by and not giving out any information that is important to resolve a legal issue .

Committee charged with assigning work continuously. See Ad hoc committee .

1. Agreement where the vendor allows the buyer to purchase goods and services at a set price for a set period of time. 2. Irrevocable offer renewed automatically after a […]

1. Banking. Payment that is pre-authorized where the account holder asks ate bank to pay an amount from their account to a party regularly. See direct debit payment. 2. Purchasing. […]

the term for an agreement or a covenant by the property owner to hold the property fore a relative.

A contract where additional shares of a target will not be purchased by a raider or acquiring firm until a mutual agreement can be accomplished .

US version of Benet Scale for intelligence measuring that was introduced in 1916 by A. Term from Stanford University.

A district whicb includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs […]

Genus of a gram-positive, grape shaped bacteria not forming spores causing food poisoning and infections that lead to meningitis, pneumonia etc.

In English law . A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other articles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. […]

A food that is consumed on a regular basis and provides most of a community’s calorie needs.

Goods that are bought and consumed on a regular basis such as milk, bread, sugar.

The most important product forming the major part of an economy’s output or the GDP of a country.

Method of cross referencing where asterisks,*, are used to correlate pagination of new editions to those of previous editions.

Scheme of network cabling where nodes are connected to a central hub whose failure will shut down the whole network. Star network. See ring topology , tree topology .

was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, com- bination of maintenance, or overawing […]

In maritime law . The right-hand side of a vessel when the observer faces forward. “Starboard tack,” the course of vessel when she has the wind on her starboard bow. […]

Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477.

Lat. To apf.ear before a tribunal, either as ulaintiff or defendant. BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, being a corruption from the Hebrew word “shctar,” a covenant. By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed […]