Tag: Investment Meaning

  • Merger

    Merger

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Merger Meaning of Merger In relation to corporations, the term denotes the amalgamation of two corporations to form a new one. The absorption of one corporation by another, which retains its name and […]

  • Quote

    The highest bid to buy and the lowest offer to sell a security in a given market at a given time. If you ask your financial advisor for a &quote& on a stock, he or she may come back with something like &45 1/4 to 45 1/2.& This means that $45.25 is the highest price…

  • Stock Exchange

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Stock Exchange Meaning of Stock Exchange An association of stockbrokers and dealers who have for convenience provided themselves with a common place for the transaction of their business of buying and […]

  • Stock

    Stock

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Stock Meaning of Stock A fund, capital ; the money or goods employed in trade ; the property which a merchant , a tradesman or a company has invested in any business , including merchandise , money and […]

  • Stock

    Stock

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Stock Meaning of Stock A fund, capital ; the money or goods employed in trade ; the property which a merchant , a tradesman or a company has invested in any business , including merchandise , money and […]

  • Transfer

    To convey . Also, the document by which property is transferred. Generally, the term transfer is used only to denote voluntary conveyance of property. The bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C. §101(40) defines the word as every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary […]

  • Underwriter

    An insurer, expecially one who joins with other insurers in entering into a policy of insurance. The term is particularly used in relation to marine insurance policies which generally are subscribed to by more than on insurer. Also, the subscriber for shares of a corporation before they are […]

  • Premium

    A consideration ; a reward for an act done; a bounty or bonus . Also, the annual or periodic payment made by an insured to the insurer in consideration of the insurer issuing the policy of insurance or renewing the same.

  • Market Price

    The price at which a seller is ready and willing to sell and a buyer is ready and willing to buy in the ordinary course of trade . The actual price at which a given commodity is currently sold or has recently been sold in the open market , that is, not a forced sale…

  • Prospectus

    Prospectus

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Prospectus Meaning of Prospectus Any offer or confirmation , made in writing or through the medium of television or radio , of the sale of any security of a corporation . Essentially, a document required […]

  • Prospectus

    Prospectus

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Prospectus Meaning of Prospectus Any offer or confirmation , made in writing or through the medium of television or radio , of the sale of any security of a corporation . Essentially, a document required […]

  • Offer

    Offer

    A promise or a proposal made by one party to another intending the same to create a legal relationship upon the acceptance thereof by the other party. An offer, in this sense, is an essential ingredient for the formation of a contract . See Contract.

  • Offer

    Offer

    A promise or a proposal made by one party to another intending the same to create a legal relationship upon the acceptance thereof by the other party. An offer, in this sense, is an essential ingredient for the formation of a contract . See Contract.

  • Rights

    Rights

    U.C.C. §1-201(36) states that the term Rights includes remedies.

  • Registration

    Registration

    The act of registering, recording, inserting in an official register, enrollment. In election law, it is a method of proof prescribed for ascertaining the electors who shall qualify to cast their votes and is the act of making a list or schedule or register containing names of electors.