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Preferential

Giving indicating or having a preference or precedence as a preferential claim preferential shares … having a preference or precedence as a preferential claim preferential shares

Deferred stock

Act, 1929, s. 50, in regard to companies limited by shares or limited by guarantee. See as to railway companies the

dividend

as a dividend cumulative dividend : a dividend distributed to preferred stockholders that is added to and paid with the next … (as quarterly) to stockholders in the form of cash, additional shares, or property either as a set amount per share or

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Winding-up

the law of bankruptcy (s. 262). S. 264 provides for preferential payments and (if the company is registered in England) postpones … by the company of its property and any transfer of shares or alteration of the status of its members is void

party

affected by litigation and whose inclusion in the litigation is preferable but not essential real party in interest : a party

vote

[got half the ] 2 : the collective opinion or preference of a body of persons expressed by voting 3 : … on a corporate matter on the basis of [voted their shares against the proposed merger]

Lease

licence or lease, the substance of the document must be preferred to the form; the real test is the intention of … of a price paid or promised, or of money, a share of crops, service or any other thing of value ,

Primogeniture

1925, s. 201 (2)] Means first born and denotes the preferential rights of the senior-most in age to succeed to the … was not acknowledged by the Romans; sons and daughters all shared equally the property of their parents; and in continental coun-tries

Priority

of such person shall be entitled to any priority or preference by reason merely that the same is secured by or … but not mortgages of life interests or of an undivided share or of an estate in remainder or reversion were transformed

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