Legal Dictionary

Category: Finance Law

  • Capital Market

    Capital Market

    Financial Definition of Capital Market Meaning of Capital Market The market for trading long-term debt instruments (those that mature in more than one year). Related Entries of Capital Market in the […]

  • Expropriation

    Expropriation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Expropriation Meaning of Expropriation The compulsory purchase of land or other property of a person by a municipal or other governmental authority usually in return for fair compensation. The right to […]

  • Devaluation

    Devaluation

    Financial Definition of Devaluation Meaning of Devaluation A decrease in the spot price of the currency. International Trade Meaning and Definition of Devaluation The official lowering of the value […]

  • Budget

    Budget

    Financial Definition of Budget Meaning of Budget A detailed schedule of financial activity, such as an advertising budget, a sales budget, or a capital budget. Synonyms of Budget […]

  • Money Supply

    Money Supply

    Financial Definition of Money Supply Meaning of Money Supply M1-A: Currency plus demand deposits M1-B: M1-A plus other checkable deposits. M2: M1-B plus overnight repos, money market funds, savings, and small (less than $100M) time deposits. M3: […]

  • Collective Bargaining

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Collective Bargaining Meaning of Collective Bargaining A procedure whereby an employer and the representatives of the collective body of his employees negotiate and bargain with a view to fixing the terms […]

  • Market Prices

    The amount of money that a willing buyer pays to acquire something from a willing seller, when a buyer and seller are independent and when such an exchange is motivated by only commercial consideration….

  • Discount Rate

    The interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges a bank to borrow funds when a bank is temporarily short of funds. Collateral is necessary to borrow, and such borrowing is quite limited because the Fed views it as a privilege to be used to meet short-term liquidity needs, and not a device to […]

  • Spreadsheet

    A computer program that organizes numerical data into rows and columns on a terminal screen, for calculating and making adjustments based on new data….

  • Erosion

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Erosion Meaning of Erosion The gradual wearing away of land by the act of the currents of waters or tides. state of Arkansas v State of Tennessee, 246 U.S. 158, 38 S.Ct. 301, 63 L.Ed. 638. <div […]

  • Limited Partnership

    A partnership formed by two or more persons having as members one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See uniform Limited Partnership Act, §1. while civil law recog-nized limited partnerships, common law did not and limited partnership in common law […]

  • Ethics

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ethics Meaning of Ethics The basic principles of right action . Ethics of a profession are the general body of rules, written or unwritten, relative to the conduct of the members of the profession […]

  • Bull

    A letter from the pope of Rome, written on parchment, to which is attached a leaden seal impressed with the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. There are three kinds of apostolical rescripts, the brief, the signature, and the […]

  • Bretton Woods Agreement

    An agreement signed by the original United Nations members in 1944 that established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the post-World War II international monetary system of fixed exchange rates….

  • Majority Voting

    Voting system under which each director is voted upon separately. Related: cumulative voting….