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  • Trial

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Trial Meaning of Trial The examination of a cause , civil or criminal , before a judge who has jurisdiction over it, according to the laws of the land, to determine which of two opposing sides is entitled […]

  • Gerontocracy

    Definition of Gerontocracy The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Gerontocracy: Rule by elders. A society in which power, wealth and prestige flow upwards within an age pyramid. While authority or power was in the hands of elders in many small-scale […]

  • Bond Rating

    Evaluations of the quality (which, by and large, means safety) of bonds, both public and private, systematically carried out by several bond rating companies. Since, as a general rule, the safer the bond the less interest the issuer must pay, a drop in rating is costly. And if the rating drops […]