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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. ...

Offer of shares to the public

Offer of shares to the public. Shares and debentures of limited companies, when allotted or agreed to be allotted with a view to sale to the public, must when offered to the public comply with the provision of s. 38 of the Companies Act, 1929; and see PROSPECTUS. Further, any offer in writing to any member of the public of any shares for purchase except as provided, i.e. (a) shares dealt in with permission of any recognised stock exchange in Great Britain; (b) shares allotted with a view to sale to the public; and (c) offers to persons doing regular business in the purchase or sale of shares, must comply with s. 356 of the same Act; s. 356 also absolutely prohibits 'share pushing,' i.e., any person going from house to house (not being an office used for business purposes) offering shares for subscription or purchase to the public or any member of the public...

offer

offer 1 : a proposal, promise, or other manifestation of willingness to make and fulfill a contract or to bargain under proposed terms with another party that has the power to accept it upon receiving it [denied accepting the ] see also revoke, tender offer 2 : a price named by one proposing to buy (as in a bid, bargain, or settlement) : the amount of an offer to pay money [decided the was too low] offer vb ...

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. ...

purchase offer

purchase offer A detailed, written document that makes an offer to purchase a property, and that may be amended several times in the process of negotiations. When signed by all parties involved in the sale, the purchase offer becomes a legally binding contract, sometimes called the Sales Contract. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Heave offering

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

Offer

Offer is, in effect, a promise by the offeror to do or abstain from doing something, provided that the offeree will accept that offer and pay or promise to pay the 'price' of the offer. The price, of course, need be a monetary one. In fact, in bilateral contracts, the mere promise of payment of the price suffices to conclude the contract, while in a unilateral contract it is the actual payment of the price which is required, An Introduction to the Law of Contract. P.S. Atiyah, 44 (3rd Edn., 1981)....

tender offer

tender offer : a public offer to purchase a specified number or range of shares from shareholders usually at a premium and in an attempt to gain control of the issuing company ...

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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