Legal Definition and Related Resources of Liquidation
Meaning of Liquidation
process by which the affairs of a debtor are wound up leading to the settlement of financial accounts by converting assets into cash for distribution to creditors, stockholders, etc.
Liquidation Alternative Definition
A fixed and determinate valuation of things which before were uncertain.
Financial Definition of Liquidation
When a firm’s business is terminated, assets are sold, proceeds pay creditors and any leftovers are distributed to shareholders. Any transaction that offsets or closes out a Long or short position. Related: buy in, evening up, offsetliquidity.
Legal Definition of Liquidation
The process of converting securities or other property into cash. The dissolution of a company, with cash remaining after sale of its assets and payment of all indebtedness being distributed to the shareholders.
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Liquidation in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of liquidation.
Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Liquidation
(You may find liquidation at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
1570s, in law, of debts, noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin liquidare “melt, make liquid” (see liquidate). Originally as a legal term in reference to assets; of companies going out of business, 1869; of inconvenient groups of persons, “a killing, a wiping out,” 1925 in communist writings. In O. Henry, “the act of taking a drink of liquor.”
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See Also
- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police
- Law Enforcement Agency
Further Reading
- liquidation in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- liquidation in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
Liquidation Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)
The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Liquidation in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Winding up an activity by distributing its ASSETS to the appropriate parties and settling its DEBTS.
Concept of Liquidation in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Liquidation: The settling of financial affairs of a business or individual, by liquidating (turning to cash) all assets for distribution to creditors, heirs, etc.
Concept of Liquidation in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Liquidation: The settling of financial affairs of a business or individual, by liquidating (turning to cash) all assets for distribution to creditors, heirs, etc.
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Translation of Liquidation
- Spanish: Liquidación de sociedad mercantil
- French: Liquidation de société
- German: Gesellschaftsauflösung
- Italian: Liquidazione di società
- Portuguese: Liquidação de sociedade comercial
- Polish: Likwidacja spółki
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