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The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case or the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease the highest point or degree opposed to minimum...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Value
Value, a relative term. The value of a thing may refer to a certain standard with which the thing can be measured or compared. The factors of comparison should be capable of precise definition.The word 'value,' when used without adjunct, always means in political economy, value in exchange; or, as it has been called by Adam Smith and his successors, exchangeable value, a phrase which no amount of authority that can be quoted for it can make other than bad English. Mr. De Quincey substitutes the term 'exchange value,' which is unexceptionable, 1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 528, 578.The word 'value,' it is to be observed, has more than one meaning, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called 'value in use,' the other 'value in exchange.' The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those whic...
due diligence
due diligence 1 : such diligence as a reasonable person under the same circumstances would use : use of reasonable but not necessarily exhaustive efforts called also reasonable diligence NOTE: Due diligence is used most often in connection with the performance of a professional or fiduciary duty, or with regard to proceeding with a court action. Due care is used more often in connection with general tort actions. 2 a : the care that a prudent person might be expected to exercise in the examination and evaluation of risks affecting a business transaction b : the process of investigation carried on usually by a disinterested third party (as an accounting or law firm) on behalf of a party contemplating a business transaction (as a corporate acquisition or merger, loan of finances, or esp. purchase of securities) for the purpose of providing information with which to evaluate the advantages and risks involved [the greatest exposure…for failure to conduct adequate due diligence...
Bouvines
the location where in 1214 the French under King Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages...
Brunt
The heat or utmost violence of an onset the strength or greatest fury of any contention as the brunt of a battle...
Buddhism
The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindu sage Gautama Siddartha surnamed Buddha ldquothe awakened or enlightenedrdquo in the sixth century b c and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands Buddhas teaching is believed to have been atheistic yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality It presents release from existence a beatific enfranchisement Nirvacircna as the greatest good Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470000000...
Crannog
One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds reaching their greatest development in early historic times and surviving through the Middle Ages See also Lake dwellings under Lake...
Didonia
The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area...
Ellipse
An oval or oblong figure bounded by a regular curve which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis and the least diameter is the minor axis See Conic section under Conic and cf Focus...
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