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Sale
Sale town (1991 pop. 57,872), Trafford metropolitan district, W England. It is a residential suburb of Manchester, known for its cookies.
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sale
sale in law, transfer of ownership in return for money. An exchange of goods for goods is termed barter, but the distinction between sale and barter is mainly technical; laws that govern one govern the other equally. Sale and barter are distinguished from the giving of a gift , which involves no v...
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sales tax
sales tax levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. It may be levied each time a commodity chang...
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Statute of Frauds
Statute of Frauds basis of most modern laws requiring that certain promises must be in writing in order to be enforceable; it was passed by the English Parliament in 1677. In the United States, although state laws vary, most require written agreements in four types of contracts: contracts to assume...
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electronics
electronics science and technology based on and concerned with the controlled flow of electrons or other carriers of electric charge, especially in semiconductor devices. It is one of the principal branches of electrical engineering . The invention of the transistor, announced in 1948, and the...
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mortgage
mortgage in law, device for protecting a creditor by giving him an interest in property of his debtor. In common law a mortgage was a conditional sale; i.e., the mortgagor (debtor) sold realty (real property mortgage) or personal property (chattel mortgage), but if the debtor paid the debt by a...
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Jane Byrne
Jane Byrne 1934-, American politician, b. Chicago as Margaret Jane Burke. She was Chicago's consumer sales commissioner (1968-77) under Mayor Richard Daley before she became the first woman to win election (1979) as mayor of the city. During Byrne's single term, the city faced severe financial pr...
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white-collar crime
white-collar crime term coined by Edward Sutherland for nonviolent crimes committed by corporations or individuals such as office workers or sales personnel (see white-collar workers ) in the course of their business activities. White-collar crimes include embezzlement, false advertising, bribery,...
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Griswold v. Connecticut
Griswold v. Connecticut case decided in 1965 by the U.S. Supreme Court, establishing a right to privacy in striking down a Connecticut ban on the sale of contraceptives. The Court, through Justice William O. Douglas , found a "zone of privacy" created by several amendments to the U.S. Consti...
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Saint John Bosco
Saint John Bosco 1815-88, Italian priest, b. Piedmont. As a priest at Turin he was very successful in work with boys. He founded (1841) the Salesian order (i.e., order of St. Francis de Sales) for this work and for foreign missions. Later he founded an order of women, Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix,...
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