Churning - Law Dictionary Search Results
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churn : to make (the account of a client) excessively active by frequent purchases and sales primarily in order to generate commissions NOTE: Churning is a violation of federal securities laws. ...
Brownie
An imaginary good natured spirit who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night such as thrashing churning sweeping...
Butter
An oily unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning...
Churning
The act of one who churns...
Churn
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred beaten or otherwise agitated as by a plunging or revolving dasher in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts and obtain butter...
churned up
agitated vigorously of a liquid...
dasher
That which dashes or agitates as the dasher of a churn...
Margarine
A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter made primarily from refined vegetable oils sometimes including animal fats and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion also called oleomargarine artificial butter...
Weights and measures
Weights and measures, instruments for reducing the quantity and price of merchandise to a certainty, that there may be the less room for deceit and imposition. See AVOIRDUPOIS; TROY WEIGHT; and METRIC SYSTEM.The adjustment of weights and measures is a prerogative of the Crown, and has from an early date been regulated by statute-the Weights and Measures Act, 1878. The 25th and 26th sections enact that:25. Use or Possession for Use.-Every person who uses or has in his possession for use for trade any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, or weighing machine which is false or unjust, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 5l., or in the case of a second offence 20l. [as amended by the W. and M. Act, 1889], and any contract, bargain, sale, or dealing made by the same shall be void, and the weight, measure, scale, balance, or steelyard shall be liable to be forfeited.26. Fraud in Use.-Where any fraud is wilfully committed in the using of any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyar...
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