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Cordon bleu
a first rate cook or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus or Knights of the Holy Ghost
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Poor laws
to the rating authority, see the (English) Overseers Order, 1927 (S. R. & O., 1927, No. 55). The rate was raised prospectively for some given portion of the year, and upon a scale adapted to the probable … of the Local Government Act, 1894. Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and
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mortgage
effect of a mortgage by a court of equity because the parties intended it to be a mortgage first mortgage : a mortgage that has priority over all other security interests except those imposed by law fixed … debtor's property "J. H. Williamson"] c : a loan secured by a mortgage [applied for a ] adjustable rate mortgage : a mortgage having an interest rate which is usually initially lower than that of a mortgage
Railway
charges. See RAILWAY RATES TRIBUNAL. Passenger Fares.-The maximum fares for passengers have been but little revised since their first authorisation by the special Acts authorising the construction of the railways to which they are applicable. For tables … submit to the Board of Trade a 'revised classification of the traffic, and a revised schedule of maximum rates and charges applicable thereto,' with the view to their eventual embodiment in Acts of Parliament. Numerous Acts have
Customs
country. They seem to have existed in England before the Conquest, but the king's claim to them was first established by grant of Parliament in the reign of Edward I. These duties were at first, principally laid … they were denominated subsidies, and as the duty of poundage had continued for a lengthened period at the rateof 1s. a pound, or five percent., a subsidy came, in the language of the customs, to denote an
Half life
half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The half lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true first order processes such as radioactive decay the … the time it takes for one half of a substance decaying in a first order reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for one half of the
conversion clause
a fixed-rate loan at some point during the term. Usually conversions are allowed at the end of the first adjustment period. At the time of the conversion, the new fixed rate is generally set at one of
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two step mortgage
two step mortgage an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) that has one interest rate for the first five to seven years of its term and a different interest rate for the remainder of the term.
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