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public offering

public offering : an offering of corporate securities to the general public or to potential purchasers whose level of knowledge or access to information about the securities is dependent upon the disclosures of the corporation compare private offering NOTE: Public offerings are subject to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 for filing a registration statement before the offering can take place. ...

private offering

private offering : the sale of an issue of securities directly by the issuer to one or a few large investors without any public offering called also private placement compare public offering NOTE: A private offering is exempt from the requirements of filing a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and distributing prospectuses to potential buyers before the sale. ...

Heave offering

An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar as the shoulder of the peace offering See Wave offering...

final offer arbitration

final offer arbitration see arbitration ...

Offerings

Offerings, personal tithes, payable by custom to the parson or vicar of a parish, either occasionally, as at sacraments, marriages, churching of women, burials, etc.; or at constant times, as at Easter, Christmas, etc, 2 & 3 Edw. 6, cc. 13, 20 (repealed by the Church Assembly Measure, 16 & 17 Geo. 5,No. 5), and 21. Voluntary Easter offerings received by an incumbent are profits accruing to him and are assessable for income tax, Cooper v. Blakiston, 1909 AC 104....

Offering

Offering, means all offerings in cash or kind made in various Gurudwaras or institutions managed or controlled by the Committee. [Delhi Sikh Guru-dwaras Act (82 of 1971), s. 2(g)(iii)]...

Offerable

Capable of being offered suitable or worthy to be offered...

Offerer

One who offers esp one who offers something to God in worship...

Easter offerings, or Easter dues

Easter offerings, or Easter dues, small sums of money paid to the parochial clergy by the parishio-ners of Easter as a compensation for personal tithes, or the tithe for personal labour; recoverable under 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 6, before justices of the peace, see Reg. v. Hall, (1868) LR 1 QB 632. In that case the vicar of Batley in Yorkshire was held entitled to recover, on evidence of a custom, for every communicant, 2d.; every cow, 2d.; every plough, 2d.; every foal, 1s.; every hive of bees, 1d.; every house, 3-1/2d.; and the question whether a payment of 2d. per head for every member of a family of or above the age of sixteen was left open. A Rubric at the end of the Communion Service of the Prayer Book to the effect that 'yearly at Easter every Parishioner shall reckon with the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or his or their Deputy or Deputies, and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical Duties accustomably due, then and at that time to be paid,' probably refers to such specific payments as thos...

Offering circular

Offering circular, means a document, similar to a prospectus, that provides information about a private securities offering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1112....

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