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bond 1 a : a usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as appear in court or fulfill the obligations of a contract) or abstain from performing an act (as committing a crime) with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person or often a surety to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety ;also : the money put up NOTE: The purpose of a bond is to provide an incentive for the fulfillment of an obligation. It also provides reassurance that the obligation will be fulfilled and that compensation is available if it is not fulfilled. In most cases a surety is involved, and the bond makes the surety responsible for the consequences of the obligated person's behavior. Some bonds, such as fidelity bonds, function as insurance agreements, in which the surety promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over w...
Overdue
Overdue, past the time of payment.By s. 36 (2), (3), and (4) of the (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882:-(2) where an overdue bill is negotiated, it can only be negotiated subject to any defect of title affecting it its maturity, and thenceforward no person who takes it can acquire or give a better title than that which the person from whom he took it had.(3) A bill payable on demand is deemed to be overdue within the meaning and for the purposes of this section, when it appears on the face of it have been in circulation for an unreasonable length of time. what is an unreasonable length of time for this purpose is a question of fact.(4) Except where an indorsement bears date after the maturity of the bill, every negotiation is prima facie deemed to have been effected before the bill was overdue....
spread
spread 1 a : the difference between any two prices for similar articles [the between the list price and the market price of an article] b : the difference between the highest and lowest prices of a product or security for a given period c : the difference between bid and asked prices (as of a stock) 2 a : a simultaneous put option and call option in which the put price and the call price differ so that no profit is made unless the price falls below or rises above the put or call price respectively by more than enough to cover the cost of the option ;also : the difference between the put price and call price b : a transaction in which a participant hedges with simultaneous long and short options in different commodities or different delivery dates in the same commodity 3 : an arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two markets when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets ;also : the difference in price 4 : the differenc...
grownup
fully developed adult mature of people and animals as Act like a grownup...
Stipulation
Stipulation, bargain; also, a recognizance of certain fidejussors in the nature of bail, taken in the Admiralty Courts.It is the highest and most authentic contract known to the Civil Law, entered into before the magistrate or public officer, through the medium of interrogatories and answers calculated to explain the nature and extent of the undertaking, to put the parties entering into it on their guard, and to show it to be their mature and deliberate act. It could not be impeached except for fraud or deceit, and could not be released or discharged except by an equally solemn proceeding, conducted by question and answer before the public functionary, called an acceptilation, Vinnius, 677; Sand. Just., 7th Edn. 332....
liability
liability pl: -ties 1 : the quality or state of being liable 2 : something for which one is liable: as a : a financial obligation : debt [tax ] [the bonds are liabilities] compare asset contingent liability : an amount that may or may not be owed depending on the outcome of a contingency (as a cosigner's default on a loan) fixed liability : a liability (as a bond or mortgage) that does not mature for at least one year from the date incurred or from a given date b : accountability and responsibility to another enforceable by civil remedies or criminal sanctions [ for injuries caused by their product] absolute liability : strict liability in this entry alternative liability : joint liability imposed on multiple tortfeasors when there are simultaneous tortious acts (as defective manufacture of parts of a wheel by different manufacturers) and uncertainty as to which act was the proximate cause of an injury compare concert of action civil liability : liability imposed under c...
Heteromorphic
Deviating from the normal perfect or mature form having different forms at different stages of existence or in different individuals of the same species applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult and to plants having more than one form of flower...
vest
vest [Anglo-French vestir, literally, to clothe, from Old French, from Latin vestire] vt 1 a : to place in the possession, discretion, or province of some person or authority [all legislative powers herein granted shall be ed in a Congress of the United States "U.S. Constitution art. I"] [a timely notice of appeal s jurisdiction in the appeals court] ;specif : to give to a person a fixed and immediate right of present or future enjoyment of (as an estate) [an interest ed in the beneficiary] b : to grant or endow with a particular authority, right, or property [ a judge with discretion] vi : to become vested ;specif : to entitle one unconditionally to the payment of pension benefits upon termination or retirement [his pension interest will after ten years with the company] compare mature ...
Cantaloupe
A muskmelon of several varieties having when mature a yellowish skin and flesh of a reddish orange color...
Deliberation
The act of deliberating or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure careful consideration mature reflection...
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