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floating 1 : not presently committed or invested [ capital] 2 : short-term and usually not funded [ debt] 3 : having no fixed value or rate [ currencies] [ interest rates] ...
Floating security
Floating security, in an equitable charge on the assets for the time being of a going concern. If attaches to the subject charged in the varying condition in which it happens to be from time to time. It is of the essence of such a charge that it remains dormant unit the undertaking charged ceases to be a going concern, or unit the undertaking charged cases to be a going concern, or until the person in whose favour the charge is created intervenes, Governments Stock and other Securities Investment Co. Ltd. v. Manila Railway Co. Ltd., (1897) AC 81....
Debenture
Debenture [fr. debeo, Lat., to owe] may be defined generally as a charge in writing [not necessarily sealed, see British India, etc., Co. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue, (1881) 7 QBD 165] of certain pro-perty with the repayment at a time fixed of money lent by person therein named at a given interest, but the term is a very elastic one. The word 'debenture' is of ancient origin and appears to have been in use five centuries ago (Palmer's Company Precedents, Pt. III., p. 1); and a document which, though it mentions to security and is only a promise to pay, is properly described as a debentures, and as a marketable security will require to be stamped as such, Spenyer v. Inland Revenue Commissioners, (1907)1 KB 246. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 380, a debenture is defined as including debenture stock, bonds or other securities of a company whether constituting a charge on the assets of the company or not. The charge created by debentures as a rule is fixed on the company's...
floater
floater 1 from the notion that the policy “floats” with the goods it insures, wherever they might be located : a policy or supplemental attachment to a policy insuring specific items of personal property (as jewelry or art) ;specif : a policy of insurance to protect against loss or damage of goods in transit or goods (as jewels) naturally subject to use in various places called also floating policy 2 : a debt security that yields an indexed variable rate of interest ;esp : floating rate note at note ...
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...
By way of specific charge
By way of specific charge, means a specific charge is one that without more fastens on ascertained and definite property or property capable of being ascertained and defined, a floating charge, on the other hand, is ambulatory and shifting in its nature, hovering over and so to speak floating with the property which it is intended to affect until some event occurs or some act is done which causes it to settle and fasten on the subject of the charge within its reach and grasp, Spectrum Plus Ltd. (in re:) (in Liquidation), (2004) LR 337 (CA): (2004) EWHC 9: (2004) EWCA Civ 670...
Float
Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid as to sustain weight or to indicate the height of the liquid surface or mark the place of something...
Darby
A plasterers float having two handles used in smoothing ceilings etc...
lien
lien [Anglo-French, bond, obligation, literally, tie, band, from Old French, from Latin ligamen, from ligare to bind] : a charge or encumbrance upon property for the satisfaction of a debt or other duty that is created by agreement of the parties or esp. by operation of law ;specif : a security interest created esp. by a mortgage assessment lien : a lien that is on property benefiting from an improvement made by a municipality and that secures payment of the taxes assessed to pay for the improvement attachment lien : a lien acquired on property by a creditor upon levy of an attachment car·ri·er's lien : a lien against freight conferring on the carrier the right to retain the property until the amount due is paid charging lien : a lien attaching to a judgment or recovery awarded to a plaintiff and securing payment of the plaintiff's attorney's fees and expenses called also special lien choate lien : a lien that requires no further action to be made enforceable and th...
Fluctuate
To move as a wave to roll hither and thither to wave to float backward and forward as on waves as a fluctuating field of air...
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