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Emargination

The act of notching or indenting the margin or the state of being so notched also a notch or shallow sinus in a margin...

stock 1 a : the equipment, materials, or supplies of a business b : a store or supply accumulated ;esp : the inventory of the goods of a merchant or manufacturer 2 : the ownership element in a corporation usually divided into shares and represented by transferable certificates ;also : the certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock capital stock 1 : the stock that a corporation may issue under its charter including both common and preferred stock 2 : the outstanding shares of a joint stock company considered as an aggregate 3 : capitalization common stock : a class of stock whose holders share in company profits (as through dividends) on a pro rata basis, may vote for directors and on important matters such as mergers, and may have limited access to information not publicly available cumulative preferred stock : preferred stock whose holders are entitled to the payment of cumulative dividends as well as current dividends before common stockholders are ...

Regulation U

Regulation U : a regulation of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System imposing credit restrictions on banks that extend credit for the purpose of buying or carrying margin stock if the credit is secured directly or indirectly by margin stock ...

Offence

Offence, crime; act of wickedness. It is used as a genus, comprehending every crime and misde-meanour, or as a species, signifying a crime not indictable, but punishable summarily, or by the forfeiture of a penalty.There are certain acts which are heinous sins and odious in the public eye and are punishable in the Ecclesiastical Courts, but not being punishable at Common Law, and the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts being held to be prosalute anim' and not to entail any temporal injury, they cannot be classed with ordinary Common Law and statutory offences; and it is no slander to impute them unless special damage follows.Other offences are divided into three classes, viz.:-(1) Treasons; (2) Felonies; and (3) Misdemeanours. See several titles.Consult Russell on Crimes; Archbolds' or Roscoe's Criminal Evidence.It means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force and includes any act in respect of which a complaint may be made under s. 20 of the Cat...

Repand

Having a slightly undulating margin said of leaves...

Marginate

Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure...

Margined

Having a margin...

VerbarOpisthion

The middle of the posterior or dorsal margin of the great foramen of the skull...

Palmcrist

The palma Christi Jonah iv 6 margin and Douay version note...

Paragraph

Originally a marginal mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text e g a change of subject now the character para commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote or to indicate the place of a division into sections...

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