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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 ...
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churching of women, burials, etc.; or at constant times, as at Easter, Christmas, etc, 2 & 3 Edw. 6, cc. 13, 20 (repealed by the Church Assembly Measure, 16 & 17 Geo. 5,No. 5), and 21.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....
Offer to bribery
Offer to bribery, the expression 'offer or bribery' must be given a very wide meaning and not a narrow construction in order to ensure that elections are held in an atmosphere of absolute purity, Ghasiram Majhi v. Omkar Singh, AIR 1968 Ori 99 (103). [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 123(1)]...
Offer of judgment
Offer of judgment, means a settlement offer by one party to allow a specified judgment to be taken against the party, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1112...
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...
Offerer
One who offers esp one who offers something to God in worship...
Offerable
Capable of being offered suitable or worthy to be offered...
firm offer
firm offer : a binding written offer to buy or sell that cannot be revoked for a stipulated period of time or for a reasonable time that in no event exceeds three months ...
counter offer
counter offer a rejection to all or part of a purchase offer that negotiates different terms to reach an acceptable sales contract. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
final offer arbitration
final offer arbitration see arbitration ...
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