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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...
Irredeemable
Not redeemable that can not be redeemed not payable in gold or silver as a bond used especially of such government notes issued as currency as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder...
redemptioner
redemptioner : one that redeems ;specif : one that redeems real property under equity of redemption or right of redemption ...
Re demption
The act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed repurchase ransom release rescue deliverance as the redemption of prisoners taken in war the redemption of a ship and cargo...
Saint
A person sanctified a holy or godly person one eminent for piety and virtue any true Christian as being redeemed and consecrated to God...
Seven thirties
A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes made during the Civil War in denominations of 50 and over bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths thirty hundredths per cent annually Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded...
Alteration of share capital
Alteration of share capital. Under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, the share capital of a company may be altered by increase (s. 53), consolidation or division, conversion of shares into stock and reconversion or cancellation of unissued capital (s. 50), or redemption of redeemable preference shares (s. 46). The alteration must be authorized by the Articles, and the memorandum modified. A company cannot make an original issue of stock (Home & Foreign Investment and Agency Co., (1912) 1 Ch 72, and subject to confirmation by the Court a company may reduce its capital by special resolution for reducing share capital and consequential alteration of the memorandum. The words 'and reduced' need not be added to the name of the company unless the Court so orders (ss. 55-60). As a rule in all these cases the alteration must be notified to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies (s. 5), and, in the case of reduction, registered by him (s. 58)....
Charging order
Charging order, an order obtained from a court or judge under the (English) Judgments Acts, 1838 and 1840 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 14, and (3 & 4 Vict. c. 82), s. 1, and (English) R. S.C. 1883, Ord. XLVI., charging the stocks or funds of a judgment debtor with the judgment debt.Solicitor's Costs.--The (English) Solicitors' Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 69, enables any court in which a solicitor has been employed to prosecute or defend a suit to make a charging order in favour of the solicitor of the successful party for his taxed costs upon the property 'recovered or preserved' through the instrumentality of such solicitor, and the court may make such orders for taxation of and for raising and payment of such costs out of the property as shall appear just and proper, and all conveyances and acts done to defeat, or which shall operate to defect, such charge, unless made to a bona fide purchaser for value without notice, will be absolutely void as against th charge; but no such o...
Condition in the statutory provision
Condition in the statutory provision, denotes a covenant or agreement which affects the right to redeem the goods on the one side, or the right to seize them on the other, but does not defeat or limit the operation of the bill, Stott v. Show and Lee Ltd., (1928) 2 KB 26 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), para 731, p. 338....
Copyhold
Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth.A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devol...
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