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rate base : the total fair value of public utility property that is used in rendering services and that comprises the investment on which a fair rate of return is based in setting utility rates ...
adjustable-rate mortgage (arm)
adjustable-rate mortgage (arm) a mortgage loan that does not have a fixed interest rate. During the life of the loan the interest rate will change based on the index rate. Also referred to as adjustable mortgage loans (AMLs) or variable-rate mortgages (VRMs). Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
rate
rate 1 : a fixed ratio between two things 2 : a charge, payment, or price fixed according to a ratio, scale, or standard: as a : a charge per unit of a commodity provided by a public utility b : a charge per unit of freight or passenger service see also joint rate c : a unit charge or ratio used in assessing property taxes 3 a : a quantity, amount, or degree of something measured per unit of something else b : an amount of payment or charge based on another amount ;specif : the amount of premium per unit of insurance rate vt ...
interest rate swap
interest rate swap a transaction between two parties where each agrees to exchange payments tied to different interest rates for a specified period of time, generally based on a notional principal amount. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
ad valorem
ad valorem [Latin, according to the value] : imposed at a rate based on a percent of value [an ad valorem tax on real estate] ...
bond
bond 1 a : a usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as appear in court or fulfill the obligations of a contract) or abstain from performing an act (as committing a crime) with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person or often a surety to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety ;also : the money put up NOTE: The purpose of a bond is to provide an incentive for the fulfillment of an obligation. It also provides reassurance that the obligation will be fulfilled and that compensation is available if it is not fulfilled. In most cases a surety is involved, and the bond makes the surety responsible for the consequences of the obligated person's behavior. Some bonds, such as fidelity bonds, function as insurance agreements, in which the surety promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over w...
Piecework
Work done by the piece or job work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done rather than on the time employed...
Agricultural rates
Agricultural rates, The (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, as amended by the (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1923, provides that the occupier (including the owner if rated in place of the occupier) of agricultural land shall be liable to one quarter only of the rate in the pound payable in respect of buildings and other hereditaments. These exemptions were preserved by the (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, s. 22, but agricultural land and buildings are now entirely derated, see the (English) Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, and the Local Government Act, 1929, s. 67....
Current official scale of rates
Current official scale of rates, the expression 'current' means 'vogue' or 'prevalent'; and 'current rate' may mean the rate obtaining at a particular time or at a future time or from time to time. The terms goes well with the present, future and recurrent, the words 'current official' scale of rates' in para IV of the agreement mean the official scale of rates current or prevalent from time to time during the currency of the agreement, Gopisetti Venkatratmam v. Vijayawada Municipality, AIR 1966 SC 353 (354, 355): (1965) 3 SCR 276. [Electricity Act, (9 of 1910), s. 21(2)]...
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