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dividend
dividend 1 : the part of corporate net earnings distributed usually periodically (as quarterly) to stockholders in the form of cash, additional shares, or property either as a set amount per share or a percentage of par value constructive dividend : a benefit (as unreasonable compensation or use of corporate property) or transfer of funds from a corporation to a shareholder that is interpreted by a taxing authority as a dividend cumulative dividend : a dividend distributed to preferred stockholders that is added to and paid with the next payment or future payments if not paid when due extraordinary dividend : a dividend declared in addition to a regular dividend because of unanticipated profits or a nonrecurring increase of revenue 2 : a share of the surplus earnings of a mutual insurance company paid to policyholders either in the form of cash disbursements or through reduction of premiums 3 : a payment disbursed to investors from the income of a mutual fund ...
ex-dividend
ex-dividend : without a dividend NOTE: A stock is said to be sold “ex-dividend” when the sale occurs just before the next dividend on the stock is due to be paid, so that the payment date comes after the order to buy is executed but before the stock changes hands. In such cases, the dividend is paid to the seller, and the price of the stock is reduced by an appropriate amount. ...
Dividend
Dividend, a share, the part allotted in division; the interest paid on the public funds; the share of profits of a company payable to each shareholder (see Articles 89 to 96 of Table A to Companies Act, 1929, and ss. 120-123 of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845); a distributive share of a bankrupt's estate or on the winding-up of the company, of its assets.As to the liability upon a company in respect of a dividend when the warrant for it, having been duly posted, is lost in the post, see Thairlwal v. G.N. Ry., (1910) 2 KB 509l.Dividend means the share of the subscriber in the amount of discount available under the chit agreement for rateable distribution among the subscribers at each instalment of chit. [Chit Funds Act, (40 of 1982), s. 2(h)]Dividend, is a share of profits, whether at a fixed rate or otherwise, allocated to the holders of shares in a company, Henry v. Great Northern Rly. Co., (1857) 1 De G&J 606.'Dividend' in its ordinary connotations means the sum paid to...
Such income by way of dividends
Such income by way of dividends, the words 'such income by way of dividends' in s. 80M of Income Tax Act, is referable not only to the category of income included in the gross total income but also to the quantum of the income so included. On a plain grammatical construction, it is obvious that the words 'such income by way of dividends' must have reference to the income by way of dividends mentioned earlier and that would be income by way of dividends from a domestic company which is included in the gross total income, Disributors (Baroda) Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1585: (1986) 1 SCC 43: (1985) Supp 1 SCR 778....
Option of purchase in a lease
Option of purchase in a lease. A clause giving the lessee the option of purchasing the reversion for a fixed sum within a limited number of years, or at anytime during the term, is sometimes inserted in leases. A clause giving an option of purchase at any time during a ninety-nine years' lease offends against the law of perpetuities (see that title) and cannot be specifically enforced, Woodall v. Clifton, (1905) 2 Ch 257; Worthing Corporation v. Heather, (1906) 2 Ch 532. For statement of opinion that the clause 'to be completely valid must be so expressed that the option must necessarily be exercised (if at all) within the limits of the time allowed by the rule against perpetuities,' so that probably not more than twenty one years could be allowed in a lease independent of life, see article by Mr. T. Cyprian Williams in the Solicitors' Journal for July 9, 1898; and for cases on option of purchase generally, see Woodfall, L. & T....
Optional
Involving an option depending on the exercise of an option left to ones discretion or choice allowed but not compulsory as optional studies it is optional with you to go or stay...
Option
Option. 1. When a new suffragan bishop is consecrated by the archbishop of the province, by a customary prerogative, the archbishop claims the collation of the first vacant dignity or benefice in that see, at his own choice, i.e., option. Options are now disused. 2. The word is also used in commercial matters to express a right to effect a certain dealing or not in shares or goods at a stated price at a certain date, at the option of the person bargaining, who pays a premium for the right....
constructive dividend
constructive dividend see dividend ...
cumulative dividend
cumulative dividend see dividend ...
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