Stockholders Equity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: stockholders equitystockholders' equity
stockholders' equity the sum of proceeds from the issuance of stock and retained earnings less amounts paid to repurchase common shares. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
return on average common equity
return on average common equity net income available to common stockholders, as a percentage of average common stockholder equity. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Owner's equity
Owner's equity, is the residual claim of the owners of the business on its assets after recognition of the liabilities of the business. Owner's equity repre-sents the amounts contributed by the owners to the business, plus the accumulated income of the business since its formation, less any amounts that have been distributed to the owners, Accounting and Finance for Lawyers in a Netshell, Charles H. Meyer, 4 (1995).Means the aggregate of the owners' financial interest in the assets of a business entity; the capital contributed by the owners plus any retained earnings. Also termed (in a corporation) shareholders' equity; stockholders' equity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1131....
Stockholder
Stockholder, includes--(i) any State Government;(ii) any statutory functionary;(iii) voluntary agencies including foreign voluntary agencies, and(iv) any other person identified by the Authority:Which participate in any manner in activities related to disaster management. [Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003, s. 2(u)]The expression 'stockholder' has been defined in the Order as meaning 'every person who is in possession or control of 150 kilograms or more of ground-nut oil... (b) 15 quintals or more of ground-nut oil or cake... (c) 15 quintals or more of ground-nut seeds... and (d) 20 quintals of ground-nut shell. The explanation thereto provides that edible oil, edible oil seeds and oilcakes in transit shall be presumed to be under the control of the owner thereof, State of Karnataka v. Krishna Bhima Walvakar, AIR 1981 SC 1468: (1981) 3 SCC 301: (1981) 3 SCR 829....
equity
equity pl: -ties [Latin aequitat- aequitas fairness, justice, from aequus equal, fair] 1 a : justice according to fairness esp. as distinguished from mechanical application of rules [prompted by considerations of ] [comity between nations, and require it to be paid for "F. A. Magruder"] b : something that is equitable : an instance of equity [the inequities produced by the system are outnumbered by the equities] 2 a : a system of law originating in the English chancery and comprising a settled and formal body of substantive and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statutory law [the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and , arising under this Constitution "U.S. Constitution art. III"] see also chancery compare common law, law NOTE: The courts of equity arose in England from a need to provide relief for claims that did not conform to the writ system existing in the courts of law. Originally, the courts of equity exercised great ...
Equity
Equity [fr. 'quitas, Lat.] There is some confusion as to the meaning of Equity; as a scheme of jurispru-dence distinct from Law 'Equity' is an equivocal term; the difficulty lies in drawing the dividing lines between the several senses in which it is used. They may be distinguished thus:-(1) Taken broadly and philosophically, Equity means to do to all men as we would they should do unto us-by the Justinian Pandects, honeste vivere, alterum non l'dere, suum cuique tribuere. It is clear that human tribunals cannot cope with so wide a range or duties.(2) Taken in a less universal sense, Equity is used in contradistinction to strict law. This is Moral Equity, which should be the genius of every kind of human jurisprudence; since it expounds and limits the language of the positive laws, and construes them not according to their strict letter, but rather in their reasonable and benignant spirit.Aristotle, in his discussion concerning Moral Equity, Ethics Eud., b.v., c. x, calls it the correc...
Equity of redemption
Equity of redemption. Before 1926 the equitable estate or interest left in a person after he had mortgaged his property. Now the right to call for a reconveyance of a legal estate or of an equitable interest in property from the mortgagee on payment of principal, interest and costs. A mort-gagee, although he has become absolute owner of a legal estate in the mortgaged property, on account of the breach of the condition for repayment of the loan within the strict time, is nevertheless compelled to reconvey the legal estate to the mortgagor, who applies to redeem it, on payment of the principal, interest, and costs, Equity treating the breach of the condition as a penalty, and the retention for the mortgagee's own benefit of that which was intended simply as a pledge, as contrary to substantial justice.The right or equity of redemption is an essential attribute of a mortgage; it is inherent in the thing itself, and any provision inserted in the mortgage to defeat the right is void as a '...
stockholder
stockholder : an owner of corporate stock compare bondholder stock·hold·ing n or adj ...
stockholder of record
stockholder of record :the person who is recorded on the books of a company as the owner of stock and who may be an agent or trustee for the true owner ...
court of equity
court of equity often cap C&E : a court having jurisdiction over suits in equity and administering justice and providing remedies according to the rules and principles of equity compare court of law NOTE: Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure abolishes the distinction between law and equity, and therefore there are no longer courts of equity in the federal system. ...
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