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fund
fund 1 : a sum of money or other resources whose principal or interest is set aside for a specific objective cli·ent security fund : a fund established by each state to compensate clients for losses suffered due to their attorneys' misappropriation of funds common trust fund : an in-house trust fund established by a bank trust department to pool the assets of many small trusts for greater diversification in investing executor fund : a fund established in estate planning to provide for the payment of final expenses by an executor joint wel·fare fund : a fund that is established by collective bargaining to provide health and welfare benefits to employees and that is jointly administered by representatives of labor and management paid-in fund : a reserve cash fund in lieu of a capital stock account set up by mutual insurance companies to cover unforeseen losses sink·ing fund : a fund set up and accumulated by regular deposits for paying off the principal on a debt...
Hedge fund
a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments or by selling short...
hedge
hedge hedged hedg·ing : to reduce possible losses in speculative transactions by engaging in offsetting transactions (as futures trading) ...
Hedging bill
A hedge bill See under Hedge...
Deer hedge
Deer hedge, the hedge enclosing a deer park....
Hedge-bote
Hedge-bote, materials to make hedges, which a lessee for years, etc., may of common right take from the land leased.-see BOTE....
Funds, public
Funds, public, the name given to the public funded debt due by Government. The practice of borrow-ing money to defray a part of the war expenditure began, with us, in the reign of William III. In the infancy of the practice it was customary to borrow upon the security of some tax, or portion of a tax, set apart as a fund for discharging the principal and interest of the sum borrowed. This discharge was rarely effected. The public exigencies still continuing, the loans were continued, or the taxes again mortgaged for fresh ones. At length the practice of borrowing for a fixed period, or, as it is called, upon terminable annuities, was abandoned, and loans made upon interminable annuities, or until it might be convenient for the Government to pay off the principal. Such loans are called Funded Debt, or 'The Funds'; loans for a fixed period are said to be 'Unfunded'.In the beginning of the funding system the term 'fund' meant the taxes or funds appropriated to the discharge of the princip...
Fund
Fund, the word 'fund' may, mean actual cash resources of a particular kind (e.g., money in a drawer or a bank), or it may be a mere accountancy expression used to describe a particular category which a persons uses in making up his accounts, R.K. Dalmia v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1962 SC 1821 (1834).Means the Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Fund of a Board constituted under sub-s. (1) of s. 24, See also Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Cess Act, 1996 (28 of 1996), s. 2(b), Building and Other Construction Workers' (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (27 of 1996), s. 2(1)(k).A sum of money or other liquid assets established for a specific purpose, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 682.Means the fund of the institute to be maintained under s. 19, National Institute of Fashion Technology Act, 2006, s. 2(f).Means the advocates' welfare fund constituted under sub-section (1) of s. 3, Advocates Welfare Fund Act, 2001, s. 2(g)....
Consolidated fund
Consolidated fund, is the foundation stone of Parliamentary supervision and control over the finances in England, Commentary on Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol k, 6th Edn., p. 242.In India, the union as well as each of the States has a Consolidated Fund; the fund of the union is called the Consolidated Fund of India and that of a State that the Consolidated Fund of the State, Constitution of India, Art. 266(1)....
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