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Home Dictionary Name: annuity Page: 3Deferred life annuities
Deferred life annuities, annuities for the life of the purchaser, but not commencing until a date subsequent to the date of buying them, so that if the purchaser die before that date the purchase money is lost....
charitable remainder annuity trust
charitable remainder annuity trust see trust ...
refund annuity
refund annuity ...
Basic life assurance and general annuity business
Basic life assurance and general annuity business, means life assurance business other than pension business and overseas life, assurance business, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(1), 4th Edn. Para 220, p. 179....
Tontine
Tontine, a life-annuity, or a loan raised on life-annuities, with benefit of survivorship. The term originated from the circumstance that Lorenzo Tonti, an Italian, invented this kind of security in the seventeenth century, when the Governments of Europe had some difficulty in raising money in consequence of the wars of Louis XIV, who first adopted the plan in France. a loan was obtained from several individuals on the grant of an annuity to each of them, on the understanding that, as deaths occurred, the annuity should continue payable to the survivors, and that the last survivor should take the whole. This mode of raising money has more than once been adopted by the English Government (see, e.g., 29 Geo. 3, c. 41, amended by 30 Geo. 3, c. 45), and also for the purpose of private speculations, but it has almost entirely fallen into disuse....
Tithe Rent-Charge
Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...
Funds, public
Funds, public, the name given to the public funded debt due by Government. The practice of borrow-ing money to defray a part of the war expenditure began, with us, in the reign of William III. In the infancy of the practice it was customary to borrow upon the security of some tax, or portion of a tax, set apart as a fund for discharging the principal and interest of the sum borrowed. This discharge was rarely effected. The public exigencies still continuing, the loans were continued, or the taxes again mortgaged for fresh ones. At length the practice of borrowing for a fixed period, or, as it is called, upon terminable annuities, was abandoned, and loans made upon interminable annuities, or until it might be convenient for the Government to pay off the principal. Such loans are called Funded Debt, or 'The Funds'; loans for a fixed period are said to be 'Unfunded'.In the beginning of the funding system the term 'fund' meant the taxes or funds appropriated to the discharge of the princip...
life insurance
life insurance : insurance providing for the payment of money to a designated beneficiary upon the death of the insured see also endowment insurance ordinary life insurance : whole life insurance in this entry straight life insurance : whole life insurance in this entry term life insurance : life insurance that provides coverage for a set term and does not accumulate cash surrender value universal life insurance : life insurance characterized by flexible premiums, benefits, and payment schedules, by the indexing of cash value to money market interest rates, and by the periodic reporting of current value and company costs charged to the account universal variable life insurance : variable universal life insurance in this entry variable life insurance : life insurance in which all or part of the cash value of the policy is located in a tax-deferred investment portfolio with risk assumed by the insured for investment losses compare variable annuity at annuity variable univer...
survivor
survivor : one (as a joint tenant or a child) who is recognized as outliving another and is commonly entitled to insurance benefits (as under social security) or property upon the death of the decedent see also joint-and-survivor annuity at annuity ...
trust
trust 1 a : a fiduciary relationship in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who holds equitable title to the property b : an entity resulting from the establishment of such a relationship see also beneficiary, cestui que trust, corpus declaration of trust at declaration, principal, settlor NOTE: Trusts developed out of the old English use. The traditional requirements of a trust are a named beneficiary and trustee (who may be the settlor), an identified res, or property, to be transferred to the trustee and constitute the principal of the trust, and delivery of the res to the trustee with the intent to create a trust. Not all relationships labeled as trusts have all of these characteristics, however. Trusts are often created for their advantageous tax treatment. accumulation trust : a trust in which principal and income are allowed to accumulate rather than being paid out NOTE: Accumulation trusts are disfavored and often restricted...
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