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Home Dictionary Name: back endback end ratio (debt ratio)
back end ratio (debt ratio) a ratio that compares the total of all monthly debt payments (mortgage, real estate taxes and insurance, car loans, and other consumer loans) to gross monthly income. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
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relate back
relate back re·lat·ed back re·lat·ing back : to apply or take effect retroactively esp. based on relation back [the amendment relates back to the date of the original pleading "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 15(c)"] ...
back to back escrow
back to back escrow arrangements that an owner makes to oversee the sale of one property and the purchase of another at the same time. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Back Bencher
Back Bencher, is the member of British Parliament or of those based on British pattern who are not among the party leadership, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, (1965), p. 40.Back Bencher is an occupant of a seat in the House of Commons or similar assembly, used for a member not entitled to a front bench seat. The office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Philip Laundy & Wilding, p. 33.Back Bencher, neither holds office in Government nor belongs to the inner Councils of the party in opposition, he occupies any but the two front benches in the Chamber, though the member of a party he is generally regarded as being freer to differ from its policy than his colleagues on the front benches. Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, (1965); Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hautrey (1956); H.M. Barclay, 3rd Edn., 1970, p. 21....
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace. Formerly, where a warrant which had been granted in one jurisdiction was required to be executed in another, as where a felony had been committed in one county and the offender was lurking in another county, then, on proof of the handwriting of the justice who granted the warrant, a justice in such other county endorsed his name on the back of it, and thus gave authority to execute the warrant in such other county. See Indictable Offences Act, 1848, ss. 11-15, and later Acts. Now by the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925, a warrant lawfully issued by a justice of the peace may be executed anywhere in England and Wales.A warrant issued by a metropolitan police magistrate in respect of an offence committed within the metropolitan police district may be executed in England and Wales by any constable to whom it is addressed without backing (2 & 3 Vict. c. 71, s. 17). See METROPOLITAN POLICE MAGISTRATES....
open-end
open-end : organized to allow for contingencies: as a : permitting additional debt to be incurred under the original debt instrument subject to specified conditions see also open-end mortgage at mortgage b : having fluctuating capitalization of shares that are issued or redeemed at the current net asset value or at a figure in fixed ratio to this [an investment company] compare closed-end c : calling for the filling by a particular contractor of all government needs for a specific product during a specified period [an contract] ...
End
The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise the extremity of breadth being side hence extremity in general the concluding part termination close limit as the end of a field line pole road the end of a year of a discourse put an end to pain opposed to beginning when used of anything having a first part...
Fag end
An end of poorer quality or in a spoiled condition as the coarser end of a web of cloth the untwisted end of a rope etc...
At the end of the period of your tenancy
At the end of the period of your tenancy, means the same as 'after the end of the period of your tenancy' and is as a normal use of language in a material context that the period of the tenancy does not come to an end until midnight on the last day of that period, Notting Hill Housing Trust v. Roomus, (2006) 1 WLR 1375 (CA): (2006) EWCA Civ 407....
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