bribe, n. A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to pervert the judgment of or influence the action of a person in a position of trust. Cf. BARRATRY(4). “The core concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.” […]
legal memory. The period during which a legal right or custom can be determined or established. • Traditionally, common-law legal memory began in the year 1189, but in 1540 it became a steadily moving period of 60 years. Cf. TIME IMMEMORIAL(1). “Because of the importance to feudal landholders of seisin and of real property in
in cursu rebellionis (in k[schwa]r-s[y]oo ri-bel-ee-oh-nis). [Law Latin] Hist. In the course of rebellion. “In cursu rebellionis …. All persons were formerly regarded as in rebellion against the Crown who had been put to the horn for non-fulfilment of a civil obligation; their whole moveable estate fell to the Crown as escheat; they might be
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Hist. An English statute of 1535 that converted the equitable title held by a cestui que use (i.e., a beneficiary) to a legal one in order to make the cestui que use liable for feudal dues, as only a legal owner (the feoffee to uses) could be. • This statute was the culmination of a
funding, n. 1. The process of financing capital expenditures by issuing long-term debt obligations or by converting short-term obligations into long-term obligations to finance current expenses; the process of creating a funded debt. 2. The refinancing of a debt before its maturity. — Also termed refunding. 3. The provision or allocation of money for a
antidestruction clause. A provision in a security protecting a shareholder’s conversion rights, in the event of a merger, by granting the shareholder a right to convert the securities into the securities that will replace the com-pany’s stock when the merger is complete. See convertible security under SECURITY.
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exchange rate. The ratio for converting one country’s money into another country’s money. See FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
规定，约定 英语：stipulation 法语：accord, stipulation 德语：vertragliche Bestimmung, Klausel, Parteiübereinkunft 意大利语：accordo, stipulazione 西班牙语：cláusula, estipulación
feigned issue. Hist. A proceeding in which the parties, by consent, have an issue tried by a jury without actually bringing a formal action. • The proceeding was done when a court either lacked jurisdiction or was unwilling to decide the issue. — Also termed fictitious issue. “The chancellor’s decree is either interlocutory or final.
A merger in which the products of the acquired company are complementary to those of the acquiring company and may be produced with similar facilities, marketed through the same channels, and advertised by the same media.
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