Search results for: “principal service”

  • Domestic International Sales Corporation

    Domestic International Sales Corporation in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, domestic international sales corporation is: a corporate structure used in the United States until 1984, generally known as DISC. The principal benefit conferred by it was permission to defer payment of federal […]

  • Escheat

    Escheat

    The reversion of property to the state as the ultimate proprietor of land, by reason of the lack of anyone to inherit it. An incident of tenure arising out of the feudal system whereby the escheated estate , on the death without heirs of the person last seized, escheats […]

  • Typex

    Typex in the National Security Context A definition and brief description of Typex in relation to national security is as follows:The name for the principal encryption device, or cipher machine, used by the military, intelligence, and diplomatic services of the British Empire during World War II.

  • Barter Trade

    Barter trade in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, barter trade is: an exchange of actual goods or services estimated to have the same value. The entries on trade policy are here. Each party ™s contribution may be valued for accounting purposes in terms of a third-country currency, but […]

  • Barter Trade

    Barter trade in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, barter trade is: an exchange of actual goods or services estimated to have the same value. The entries on trade policy are here. Each party ™s contribution may be valued for accounting purposes in terms of a third-country currency, but […]

  • Liber

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Liber Meaning of Liber (Lat.) In Civil Law. A book, whatever the material of which it is made; a principal subdivision of a literary work; tnus, the Pandects, or Digest of the Civil Law, is divided into […]

  • Special Investigation

    Air Force Office of Special Investigations (afosi) in the National Security Context A definition and brief description of Air Force Office of Special Investigations (afosi) in relation to national security is as follows:The principal investigative service of thee United States Air Force.

  • Agent

    Agent

    (Lat. agens, from agere, to do). One who undertakes p transact some business, or to manage some affair, for another, by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of it. 1 Livermore, Ag. 67; 2 Bouv. Inst. 3. The term is one of a very wide application, and […]

  • Agent

    Agent

    (Lat. agens, from agere, to do). One who undertakes p transact some business, or to manage some affair, for another, by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of it. 1 Livermore, Ag. 67; 2 Bouv. Inst. 3. The term is one of a very wide application, and […]

  • Charterparty

    Charterparty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Charterparty Meaning of Charterparty (Carta partita, a deed cut in two.) A written agreement by which a shipowner lets an entire ship, or a part of it, to a merchant for the conveyance of goods, binding […]

  • Charterparty

    Charterparty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Charterparty Meaning of Charterparty (Carta partita, a deed cut in two.) A written agreement by which a shipowner lets an entire ship, or a part of it, to a merchant for the conveyance of goods, binding […]

  • Tenure

    The word is a relic of feudal times. Denoted a mode of holding property . In England, theoretically, all land is owned by the crown and all who are possessed of land hold the same mediately or immediately of the Crown. The possession of land by a subject is called tenure which may be […]

  • Tenure

    The word is a relic of feudal times. Denoted a mode of holding property . In England, theoretically, all land is owned by the crown and all who are possessed of land hold the same mediately or immediately of the Crown. The possession of land by a subject is called tenure which may be […]

  • Gist

    Gist

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Gist Meaning of Gist (sometimes, also, spelled git). In Pleading. The essential ground or object of the action in point of law, without which there would be no cause of action. Gould, PL c. 4, § 12; […]

  • Constable

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Constable Meaning of Constable An officer employed by a government , municipal or county , whose duty it is to serve process for courts of justices of the peace . […]