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Tender offer

buy a minimum number of shares directly from a corporation's shareholders at a fixed price, usually at a substantial premium over the market price, in an effort to take control of the corporation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

Tax situs

Tax situs, means a State or jurisdiction that has a substantial connection with assets that are subject to taxation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1475

Taking any other step in the proceeding

be given a narrow meaning and be confined to taking steps in the proceedings for resolution of the substantial dispute in the suit, Food Corporation of India v. Yadav Engineer & Contractor, AIR 1982 SC 1302 (1309):

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Substantive capacity

substantive if it has 'independent existence' or is of 'considerable amount or quantity'. What is independent in a substantial measure may reasonably be described as subs-tantive. Therefore, when a post is vacant, however designated in officiates, the

Special Leave to Appeal

possessing that power has declined to exercise that power, in criminal cases, leave is granted only when some substantial or gross injustice has been done; in civil cases, on a question of general interest or public importance,

Real things

Real things, things substantial and immovable, and the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of them, 1 Steph. Com.

Speaker of the House of Commons

of the Parliament in which he was elected, and is expected to preserve a strictly impartial attitude. a substantial salary is provided with a furnished residence. At the end of his official labours he is usually rewarded

Right to begin

to be considered as the substance and effect of it, and the judge will consider what is the substantial fact to be made out, and on whom it lies to make it out. And it seems that,

Respondeat ouster

to the jurisdiction, person, or writ, etc., and it be judged that the defendant put in a more substantial plea, interlocutory judgment is given that he shall answer. Also, if a prisoner fail upon a plea in

Rescission

cases, and this facility will not assist the vendor in case of a serious defect in title or substantial mis-representation, see Re Hardick Co. v. Lipski, (1901) 2 Ch 666. Where a purchaser rescinds under a power

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