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  • Commercial Paper

    Negotiable instruments, including checks, notes, bearer bonds, drafts, certificates of deposits and promissory notes. See Aurora v West, 7 Wall. 82, 19 L.Ed. 42; Bank of Newport v Cook, 60 Ark. 288, 30 S. W. 35; and Royal Jewelers, Inc. v Tanner, 95 Ohio App. 339, 108 N.E.2d291. See also […]

  • White Paper

    A document issued by a government, containing a statement of a problem and its proposed solution for the same.

  • Voter-verified Paper Audit Trail

    Voter-verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in Voting Law Definition of Voter-verified Paper Audit Trail (vvpat) in the context of the United States election law: Kind of receipt printed by an electronic voting machine indicating that an elector’s vote has been recorded by the system. The […]

  • Working Papers

    Working Papers Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)The The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Working Papers in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: (1) Records kept by the AUDITOR of the procedures applied, the tests […]

  • Command Papers

    Command Papers in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of Command Papers. This legal term is related to the United Kingom and/or the English Legal System.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw […]

  • Parliamentary Papers

    Parliamentary papers in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of parliamentary papers.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading […]

  • Federalist Papers

    ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Dictionaries.Marbury v. Madison; John Marshall; Constitution of the United States; Federalist Papers. United States Constitution ; andvol. 9:The Call for Amendments.Further Readin…

  • Books And Papers

    A term found in many discovery motions, usually set in a context like all books and papers pertaining to, seeking production of written materials relevant to litigation. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1) refers to books, documents, or other tangible things, but books and […]

  • Bearer Paper

    Commercial paper, e.g., bills, checks, notes, is bearer paper, i.e., payable to whomever is in possession of it, if it (a) is in bearer form; (b) is made payable to cash or the order of cash or to any other designee not purporting to be a specific payee […]

  • Paper Title

    A claim of title unfounded in fact, but founded on a conveyance or chain of conveyances showing an apparently good title. …

  • Annexed Paper

    See alsoAn additional piece of paper containing auxiliary material, which is attached to… (Read more)…

  • Paper Gain (Loss)

    Unrealized capital gain (loss) on securities held in portfolio, based on a comparison of current market price to original cost….

  • Euro-Commercial Paper

    Short-term notes with maturities up to 360 days that are issued by companies in international money markets….

  • Direct Paper

    Commercial paper sold directly by the issuer to investors….

  • Paper Profit (Loss)

    An unrealized profit or loss on a security still held. Paper profits and losses become realized only when the security is sold. (See: Profit-taking)…