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Projector

One who projects a scheme or design hence one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes

Schematist

One given to forming schemes a projector a schemer

Schematize

To form a scheme or schemes

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Schemer

One who forms schemes a projector esp a plotter an intriguer

Scheming

Given to forming schemes artful intriguing

Arrangements between debtors and creditors

Railway companies unable to meet their engagements with their creditors may, under the Railway Companies Act, 1867, by schemes of arrangement filed in the Chancery Division of the High Court, assented to by three-fourths in value of

Beneficial interest

Beneficial interest, means (1) a company's residual interests under pension and employee's share schemes; (2) employer's charges and other rights of recovery; and (3) on trustees right to expenses, remuneration and indemnity,

Bubble Act

by 6 Geo. 4, c. 91), passed after the failure of the South Sea Scheme, to discourage similar schemes designed merely as baits to extract money from the thoughtless.

Charity Commissioners

control over charities, including power to authorize sales, exchanges, leases and mortgages of charity property; to frame new schemes where the original terms of the trust can no longer be literally or beneficially complied with; to investigate

Plotter

One who plots or schemes a contriver a conspirator a schemer

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