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Bill of Exchange
BILL OF EXCHANGE A three-party negotiable instrument in which the first party, the drawer, presents an order for the payment of a sum certain on a second party, the drawee, for payment to a third party, the payee, on demand or at a fixed future date. A bill of exchange is distinguishable from a... Read more |
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Maker
MAKER One who makes, frames, executes, or ordains; as a lawmaker, or the maker of a promissory note. One who signs a note to borrow and, as such, assumes the obligation to pay the note when due. The person who creates or executes a note, that is, issues it, and in signing the instrument makes the... Read more |
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Presentment
PRESENTMENT A grand jury statement that a crime was committed; a written notice, initiated by a grand jury, that states that a crime occurred and that an indictment should be drawn. In relation to commercial paper ,presentment is a demand for the payment or acceptance of a negotiable instrument,... Read more |
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Nethinim
nethinim Employees in the second Temple; Jewish tradition regarded them as the descendants of the Gibeonites who saved themselves from death at the hands of the invading Israelites by means of a ruse; they were punished by Joshua to be ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’ (Josh. 9:... Read more |
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Carl Sternheim
Carl Sternheim , 1878-1943, German dramatist. In his successful comedy Die Hose (1911, tr. A Pair of Drawers, 1927) and in his later works he satirized as corrupt the manners, morals, and beliefs of bourgeois society. Other works include the plays Bürger Schippel (1913) and Die Marquise... Read more |
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Daniel Mytens
Mytens, Daniel (b Delft, c.1590; d The Hague, c.1647). Anglo-Dutch portrait painter. He trained in The Hague (probably under Miereveld), but almost all of his known career was spent in England, where he is first recorded in 1618 working for the Earl of Arundel. By 1620 he was employed by James I... Read more |
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Samuel Irenaeus Prime
Samuel Irenaeus Prime 1812-85, American Presbyterian clergyman and editor, b. Ballston Spa, N.Y. After holding pastorates at Ballston Spa and Matteawan, N.Y., he became assistant editor (1840-49) of the New-York Observer and later editor (1851-85). In this religious periodical, which he helped to... Read more |
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combinatorics
combinatorics or combinatorial analysis , sometimes called the science of counting, the branch of mathematics concerned with the selection, arrangement, and operation of elements within sets. Combinatorial theory deals with existence (does a particular arrangement exist?), enumeration (how... Read more |
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draft
draft in banking, order by one party to another party to pay a stated sum to the person or firm in whose favor the draft is made. It is similar in form to the ordinary bank check . Often the drawer and the drawee of a draft are the same person. A sight draft is payable immediately on presentation... Read more |
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