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Reversion
REVERSION Any future interest kept by a person who transfers property to another. A reversion occurs when a property owner makes an effective transfer of property to another but retains some future right to the property. For example, if Sara transfers a piece of property to Shane for life, Shane... Read more |
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Defeasible
DEFEASIBLE Potentially subject to defeat, termination, or annulment upon the occurrence of a future action or event, or the performance of a condition subsequent. The most common legal application of the term is with respect to estates as interest in land, such as in the case of a conveyance... Read more |
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egoism
egoism , in ethics, the doctrine that the ends and motives of human conduct are, or should be, the good of the individual agent. It is opposed to altruism , which holds the criterion of morality to be the welfare of others. The term has been variously used, from the benevolent self-interest of the... Read more |
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James Coolidge Carter
James Coolidge Carter (1827-1905) L AWYER Sources Reflecting on the Century.James C. Carter, one of the leading lawyers of the nineteenth century, asked his college classmates at their fifty year class reunion in 1900, “What has become of the ... Read more |
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interest
interest charge for the use of credit or money, usually figured as a percentage of the principal and computed annually. Simple interest is computed annually on the principal. Compound interest, paid by some savings banks, computes the interest on the principal as well as on any previous interest... Read more |
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Conflict of Interest
Conflict of InterestBIBLIOGRAPHYHow can there be assurance that a government official, businessman, or professional person will properly perform his duty to the public, to his employer, or to his client when that duty affects his own private economic interests? In its narrowest sense, this is the... Read more |
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sensationalism
sen·sa·tion·al / senˈsāshənl/ • adj. (of an event, a person, or a piece of information) causing great public interest and excitement: a sensational murder trial. ∎ (of an account or a publication) presenting... Read more |
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Interest Groups
Interest GroupsFunctions of interest groupsActivitiesStructuresLegitimacyProblems of analysis and researchBIBLIOGRAPHYInteraction between the polity and organized interests has taken place in all periods of history. Estates, guilds, trading companies, and the like are the more immediate antecedents... Read more |
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Howard Robard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes 1905-76, U.S. business executive, b. Houston. As a young man he inherited (1925) the patent rights to an oil tool drill, which, manufactured by the Hughes Tool Company, formed the basis of his financial empire. His interest in aviation led to the formation of the Hughes... Read more |
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With a Slumping Stock Price, AT&T Could Be a Takeover Target.(Knight...
...least passing interest by Deutsche...in the low $30s. With the stock...AT&T say a piece-by-piece valuation of...hungry for a foothold in the United...company already holds a 10 percent...in the public ... |