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Backwardation

The sellers postponement of delivery of stock or shares with the consent of the buyer upon payment of a premium to

Postposit

To postpone

Postpose

To postpone

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Reprieve

pleads her pregnancy. See JURY FMATRONS. Or (4) if the criminal become non compos, 4 Steph. Com. Temporary postponement of execution of a criminal sentence, esp. a death sentence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1305. Reprieve,

Remanet

Remanet, means a case or proceeding whose hearing has been postponed; a remainder or remant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1296. Remanet, the name given to a cause

Carry over

Carry over, a term used in the Stock Exchange to denote the process of postponing the completion of a contract, either for the purchase or sale of stocks or shares, to a later

Trust for sale

prolongation of the powers of sale until sale in favour of purchasers (s. 23); confers a power to postpone sale in the absence of a contrary intention (s. 25); consents, if requisite, are restricted to two in

Perpetuity

whether limited by deed or will, and may be thus stated: that the vesting of property cannot be postponed, or the alienation of it restricted, beyond any number of lives in being [whether interested or not is

Amendment

of grounds of appeal to them from Courts of Summary Jurisdiction upon such terms as to costs and postponement as they may think fit. As regards Courts of Summary Jurisdiction the King's Bench Division can amend an

Adjournment

Arun Subhodhai Mehta, (1989) 2 SCC 484 (491): AIR 1989 SC 1289. An Adjournment of the House contemplates postponement of the sitting or proceedings of either House to reassemble on another specified date. During currency of a

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