greenmail. 1. The act or practice of buying enough stock in a company to threaten a hostile takeover and then selling the stock back to the corporation at an inflated price. 2. The money paid for stock in the corporation’s buyback. Cf. BLACKMAIL(1); FEEMAIL; GRAYMAIL. 3. A shareholder’s act of filing or threatening to file […]
privy (priv-ee), n. pl. A person having a legal interest of privity in any action, matter, or property; a person who is in privity with another. • Traditionally, there were six types of privies: (1) privies in blood, such as an heir and an ancestor; (2) privies in representation, such as an executor and a
An estate that is the first of one or more derivative estates, bearing to each other the relation of a particular estate and a reversion.
acquisition n. 取得；获得 指成为某项财产所有人的行为，尤指用任何方法取得的实际占有。它分成原始取得〔original acquisition〕与继受取得〔derivative acquisition〕两种方式。