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b.f.o.q.

b.f.o.q. Short for the phrase "bona fide occupational qualification," in the employment discrimination context a B.F.O.Q. may absolve an employer from liability for discrimination when there is a legitimate reason to require, for example, that all of the employees working a particular job be of the same sex or age. The successful use of a B.F.O.Q. defense by an employer is rare in discrimination cases. ...

O

O the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet derives its form value and name from the Greek O through the Latin The letter came into the Greek from the Phoelignician which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian Etymologically the letter o is most closely related to a e and u as in E bone AS bamacrn E stone AS stamacrn E broke AS brecan to break E bore AS beran to bear E dove AS dumacrfe E toft tuft tone tune number F nombre...

P.O.D. account

P.O.D. account [Payable On Death] : an account payable on request to an original party or upon the party's death to one or more designated beneficiaries NOTE: A P.O.D. account is one of the few vehicles for the transfer of a decedent's property outside of probate. ...

I.O.U

I.O.U., a written acknowledgement of a debt, so called because it commences with those letters, which custom has substituted for the words I owe you, because they have the same sound. It ordinarily runs thus:-'To Mr. A.B., I.O.U. twenty rupees. C.D January 1st, 2008.'If in the above form, it requires no stamp, being neither receipt, agreement, not promissory note. If it contains a promise to pay the money, it must be stamped as a promissory note, or as an agreement, if it contains terms of agreement the subject of which is of the value of 5l. It should be addressed to the creditor by name, but that is not essential to its validity. It is evidence of an account stated with the creditor, if named; if he is not named, it is prima facie evidence of an account stated with the person producing it. It is not negotiable....

O. Ni

O. Ni. It was the course of the Exchequer, as soon as a sheriff or escheat or entered into his account for issues, amerciaments, etc., to mark upon his head O. Ni which denoted oneratur, nisi habeat sufficiente exonerationem, and presently he became the king's debtor, and a debet was set upon his head; where-upon the parties paravaile became debtors to the sheriff or escheator, and discharged against the king, 4 Inst. 116....

F.O.B.

F.O.B. free on board ...

judgment n.o.v.

judgment n.o.v. [Medieval Latin non obstante veredicto] judgment notwithstanding the verdict ...

r.o.r.

r.o.r. released on recognizance ...

Jell O

a brand of sweetened fruit flavored powdered mixture packaged so that it can be conveniently dissolved in hot water and solidified into a gelatin used as a dessert sometimes with pieces of fruit mixed in also the gelatin dessert thus prepared sometimes used metaphorically as when he pulled a gun on me my knees turned to Jell O...

F.O.B

F.O.B., free on board, a term frequently inserted in contracts for the sale of goods to be conveyed by ship, meaning that the cost of shipping will be paid by the buyer. When goods are so sold in London the buyer is considered as the shipper, and the goods when shipped are at his risk, See Green v. Sichel, (1860) 29 LJCP 213....

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