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  • Debt/Equity Ratio

    Indicator of financial leverage. Compares assets provided by creditors to assets provided by shareholders. Determined by dividing long-term debt by common stockholder equity….

  • Common Stock Equivalent

    A convertible security that is traded like an equity issue because the optioned common stock is trading high….

  • Common Stock Ratios

    Ratios that are designed to measure the relative claims of stockholders to earnings (cash flow per share), and equity (book value per share) of a firm….

  • Common Stock/Other Equity

    Value of outstanding common shares at par, plus accumulated retained earnings. Also called shareholders’ equity….

  • Special Proceedings

    A phrase used in the codes of procedure to denote all proceedings other than actions; generally, any proceeding in a court which was not under the common law and equity practice either an action at law or a suit in chancery is a special proceeding. 117 Cal. 387; Ency. of PI. & Pr. […]

  • Special Proceedings

    A phrase used in the codes of procedure to denote all proceedings other than actions; generally, any proceeding in a court which was not under the common law and equity practice either an action at law or a suit in chancery is a special proceeding. 117 Cal. 387; Ency. of PI. & Pr. […]

  • Divisum Imperium

    (Lat.) A divided empire or jurisdiction; a jurisdiction shared between two tribunals, or exercised by them alternately. This classic phrase is frequently applied in the books to the jurisdiction alternately exercised by the courts of common law and admiralty, between high and low water […]

  • United States

    The term may be used in one of several senses, either as the name of a sovereign occupying the position analogous to that of other sovereigns in the family of nations, or as designating the territory over which the sovereignty of the United States extend, or as the collective nane of the States […]

  • Consumer

    nounbuyer buyer of labor client clientele coemptor customer emptor leaser lessee obtainer patron procurer purchaser purchaser of goods shopper transferee<…

  • Jurisdiction

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Jurisdiction Meaning of Jurisdiction The extent of legal authority and power . A term of large and comprehensive import , it generally denotes the lawful authority of a body to exercise power. The term […]

  • Forum

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Forum Meaning of Forum The place in which a remedy at law can be sought. Forum Alternative Definition At Common Law. A place; a place of jurisdiction ; […]

  • Contract

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Contract Meaning of Contract A deliberate engagement between competent parties upon a legal consideration to do or abstain from doing some act. It is essential to the creation of a contract that the […]

  • Interest

    Interest

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Interest Meaning of Interest In relation to being objectively concerned in something, by having a right or title to, a claim upon, or a share in. legal concern in a thing; especially right or title to […]

  • Share

    Share

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Share Meaning of Share A portion of anything owned in common by several persons. In relation to corporations, it is a definite fractional part of the capital of the corporation conferring upon the holder […]