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Fixed bid






Fixed bid

Fixed Bid/ Fixed Contract. An offer to complete a job for a set amount of money, agreed upon in advance.

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Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.

Offer
Contracts. A proposition to do a thing. An offer ought to contain a right, if accepted, of compelling the fulfilment of the contract, and this right when not expressed, is always implied.

Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.



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First restatement of the conflict of laws
The First Restatement of the Conflict of Laws, adopted by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C. on May 11, 1934.

Fisc
Civil law. The treasury of a prince. The public treasury. Hence to confiscate a thing, is to appropriate it to the fisc. In the Roman law, fiscus signified the treasure of the prince, and aerarium, the treasure of the state. But this distinction was not observed in France.

Fiscal
Belonging to the fisc, or public treasury.

Fiscal year
Currently, the twelve-month period beginning October 1 and ending September 30. Historically, until 1831 and from 1843-49, the twelve-month period ending September 30 of the respective year; from 1832-42 and 1850-67, ending December 31 of the respective year; from 1868-1976, ending June 30 of the respective year. The transition quarter (TQ) for 1976 covers the three-month period, July-September 1976.

Fish
An animal which inhabits the water, breathes by the means of gills, and swims by the aid of fins, and is oviparous.

Fixed bid

Flag of the united states
"By the act entitled, ""An act to establish the flag of the United States"". It is enacted: a) That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be twenty stars, white in a blue field. b) That, on the admission of every new state into the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.

Flag shopping
The choosing of a particular jurisdiction by a shipowner in which to register his ship because it favours the shipowner in questions of crew pay, crew comfort and safety, taxes and ship safety. Flag shopping in the sixties was deemed an avoidance of the law. Today it is considered to be an evasion of the law, because the flag state has neither control over, nor a genuine link with, the shipowner.

Flagrans crimen
This, among the Romans, signified. that a crime was then or had just been committed for example, when a crime has just been committed and the corpus delictum is publicly exposed; or if a mob take place; or if a house be feloniously burned, these are severally flagrans cri men.

Flagrante bello
War raging: during hostilities.

Flagrante crimine or delicto
While the offense is being perpetrated: in the very act.

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