whereby
whereby,conj. By which; through which; in accordance with which (the treaty whereby the warring nations finally achieved peace).
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hereby
hereby, adv. By this document; by these very words (I hereby declare my intention to run for public office).
thereby
thereby, adv. By that means; in that way (Blofeld stepped into the embassy and thereby found protection).
sham exception
sham exception. An exception to the Noerr–Pennington doctrine whereby a company that petitions the government will not receive First Amendment protection or an exemption from the antitrust laws if its intent in petitioning the government is really an effort to harm its competitors rather than to obtain favorable governmental action. See NOERR–PENNINGTON DOCTRINE; sham action
disguised installment sale
Bankruptcy. A debtor’s leasing ploy to try to keep property outside the bankruptcy estate, whereby a lease either presents the lessee-debtor with a bargain purchase option or transfers title to the lessee-debtor at the end of the lease term. • When such a lease is discovered, the property is treated as part of the bankruptcy
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consolidation
consolidation, n. 1. The act or process of uniting; the state of being united. 2. Legislation. The combination into a single statutory measure of various legislative provisions that have previously been scattered in different statutes. 3. Civil procedure. The court-ordered unification of two or more actions, involving the same parties and issues, into a single
consumption
consumption. The act of destroying a thing by using it; the use of a thing in a way that thereby exhausts it.
further assurance
A covenant contained in a warranty deed whereby the grantor promises to execute any doc-ument that might be needed in the future to perfect the title that the original deed purported to transfer.