A corporation aggregate. Dig
3, 4, 7. Literally, a4 whole formed out of many individvals. 1 BI. Comm. 469.
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A joint-stock company, (qg
v.}—Stock-broker. One who buys and sells stock as the agent of others. Banta v. Chicago, 172 Ill. 204, 50 N. E. 233, L. R. A. 611; Little Rock v. Bar ton, 33 Ark. 486; Gast v. Buckley (Ky.) 64 S. W. 632.—Stook corporation. A corpora~ tion having ...
A town
is a civil and political corporation, established for snunicinel purposes, They may
A. 483; State v. Insurance Co., 152 Mo
1, 52 8. W. 595, 45 L. R. A. 868; Gen. St. Kan. 1901, § 7864; Code Miss. 1892, § 4437; Cobbey’s Ann. St. Neb. 1903, § 11500; Bates’
ABBROOCHMENT, or ABBROAOH
MENT. The act of forestalling a market, by buying up at wholesale the merchandise intended to be sold there, for the purpose of selling it at retail. See FoRESTALLING.
Adams v. Yazoo & M. V. R. Co., 77 Miss
194 24 South. 200, 211, 60 L. R. A. 33, it is said that the term “amalgamation” of corporations is used in the English cases in the sense of what is usually known in the United States as “merger,” meaning the absorption of one corporation by ...
AFFRETEMENT
Fr. In French law. The hiring of a vessel; affreightment. Called also nolissement. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 2, art. 2; Id. liv. 3, tit. 1, art. 1.
Aguirre, 94 Cal
180, 29 Pac. 495; Owen v. Insurance Co., 56 Hun, 455, 10 N. Y. Supp. 75.
ALLEVIARE
lL. Lat. In old records. To levy or pay an accustomed fine or composition; to redeem by such payment. Cowell.
ALLONGE
the lord treasurer and barons of the erxchequer upon application made. Jacob.
ASSESS
1. To ascertain, adjust, and ‘settle the respective shares to be contributed by several persons toward an object beneficial to them all, in proportion to the benefit received.
ATTERMINING
the time of payment of a debt. St. Westm. 2, c. 4; Cowell; Blount.
AULNAGER. See ALNAGER
. AUMEEN. In Indianlaw. Trustee; commissioner; a temporary collector or supervisor, appointed to the charge of a country on the removal of a zemindar, or for any other, particular purpose of local investigation or arrangement.
Baker, 94 N. C. 681, 55) Am, Rep
633. <A private ferry is one mainly for the use of the owner, and though he may take pay for ferriage, he does not follow it as a business. His ferry is not open to the public at i demand, and he
BANKRUPTCY
1. The state or condition of one who is a bankrupt; amenability
BANQUE
Fr. <A bench; the table or counter of a trader, merchant, or banker. Banque route; a broken bench or counter; bankrupt.
BE
589: Holt v. Somerville, 127 Mass. 408: 710, 2 Am. St. Rep. 462: Tanton v. 14, 42 L. R. A. 826; Cummings v. Bank, 101 U. 8S. 162, 25 L. Ed. 903. 649; Young v. Renshaw, 102 Mo. App. 173, 76 S. W. 701; Ex parte Lehman, 59 Ala. 632;. Koons v. Beach, ...
Bell, 18 Colo
346, 32 Pac. 989, 20 L. R. A. 241; Home Mut. Ins. Co. v. Roe, 71 Wis. 33, 386 N. W. 594; Halpin v. Insurance Co., 120 N. Y. 73, 23 N. E. 989; Southwest Missouri
Big
L. I. Cas. (or Big. L. & A. Ins. Cas.). Bigelow’s Life and Accident - Insurance Cases.
Biscuit Co
v. Klotz (C. C.) 44 Fed. 725; U. S. v. Trans-Missourt Freight Ass’n, 58 Fed. 65,70. C. A. 15, 24 L. R. A. 73.
BLACK BOOK OF THE EXCHEQ
UER. The name of an ancient book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties, conventions, charters, etc.
BLACKLEG
list or those among whom it is intended to circulate; as where a trades-union “blacklists” workmen who refuse to conform to its rules, or where a list of insolvent or untrustworthy persons is published by a commercial agency or mercantile associa...
Bliss v. Geer, 7 Ill. App
617: Norwood vy. Lassiter, 182 N. C. 52, 43: S. E. 509; Salentine v. Insurance Co., 79 Wis. 580, 48 N. W. 855, 12 L. R. A. 690.
Board of Education, 108 Ky
783, 57 S. W. 612. But there may also be “public” corporations which are not “municipal” even in this wider sense of the latter term. Such, according to some of the authorities, are the “irrigation districts” now known in several of the w...
Bowen v. Insurance Co., 20 Pick
(Mass.) 276, $2 Am. Dec. 213; U. S. v. Symonds, 120 U.
Broas, 23 Barb. .(N
nay 381.—Good will. The custom or patronage of any established trade or business; the benefit or advantage of having established a business and secured its petionage by the public. The advantage or
Bromley, 12 How
99, 18 L. Ed. 905; State v! School Fund Com’rs, 4 Kan. 268; Fletcher ¥; Oliver, 25 Ark. 206. “Jt also designates the income of an individual or‘private corporation.
BUCKSTALL
exchange) where information is posted as to the fluctuating prices of stocks, grain, cotton, or other commodities, and where persons lay wagers on the rise and fall of such prices under the pretence of buying and selling such commodities. Bryant v. W...
BURGLAR
markable of which is the custom of Borough
BUSINESS
245; Milk v. Christie, 1 Hill (N. ¥.) 106; Hockin vy. Cooke, 4 Term, 316.