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Promissory Note

person to another, signed, by the maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer.'

Proviso est providere pr'sentia et futura non pr'terita

Proviso est providere pr'sentia et futura non pr'terita. Co. 72, (A proviso is to provide for the present or future, not the past.)

Putts and refusals

Putts and refusals, time-bargains or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day. They were forbidden by the 7 Geo. 2, c. 3, s. 1 [the (English) Stock Jobbing Act],

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Question of fact

history of a company's business is a matter of fact, but its prospects of successful business in the future is a matter of opinion, Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12th Edn., p. 69: AIR 1994 SC 678. Means an

Adjournment of the House

Adjournment of the House, means suspension (proceeding) for the day; to put off until a future day. Webster's Law Dictionary, p. 18.

forecasting

The process of calculating and predicting future events usually based on extrapolation from past experience and with varying degress of uncertainty

Actual delivery of possession

of possession, Duri Chand Pataria v. Bhuwlka Brothers Ltd, AIR 1955 SC 182 (187). [W. B. Jute Goods Future Ordinance (5 of 1949), s. 2(i)(b)(i)]

order

by buying or selling) are set forth open order 1 : an order to buy securities or commodity futures that remains effective until filled or canceled 2 : an order for merchandise expressed in very general terms

habendum

habendum [New Latin, from Latin, to be had, neuter of habendus, future passive participle of habēre to have, to hold (the first word of this part of the deed)] :

hedge

hedge hedged hedg·ing : to reduce possible losses in speculative transactions by engaging in offsetting transactions (as futures trading)

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