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Jour




Jour

A French word, signifying day. It is used in our old law books, as, tout jours, for ever. It is also frequently employed in the composition of words, as, journal, a day book; journeyman, a man 'who works by the day; journeys account.

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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.

Books
Commerce, accounts. Merchants, traders, and other persons, who are desirous of understanding their affairs, and of explaining them when necessary, keep, 1. a day book; 2. a journal; 3. a ledger; 4. a letter book; 5. an invoice book; 6. a cash book; 7. a bill book; 8. a bank book; and 9. a cheek book. The reader is referred to these several articles

Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.

Composition
Contracts. An agreement, made upon a sufficient consideration, between a debtor and creditor, by which the creditor accepts part of the debt due to him in satisfaction of the whole.

Journal
1) Maitim law. The book kept on board of a ship or other vessel, which contains an account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. Another name for logbook. 2) Common law. A book used among merchants, in which the contents of the waste-book are separated every month, and entered on the debtor and creditor side, for more convenient posting in the ledger. 3) Legislation. An account of the proceedings of a legislative body. The Constitution of the United States, directs that "each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings; and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy."

Book
A general name given to every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume.

Account
Practice. 1) A statement of the receipts and payments of an executor, administrator, or other trustee, of the estate confided to him. 2) An account is also the statement of two merchants or others who have dealt together, showing the debits and credits between them.



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Joint venture
When two independent businesses wish to combine forces in a business project, they may form a joint venture to operate the new project as a separate enterprise. This can take the form of a simple contractual arrangement, a partnership or a joint venture company.

Joint venture agreement
When two independent businesses wish to combine forces in a business project, they may form a joint venture to operate the new project as a separate enterprise. This can take the form of a simple contractual arrangement, a partnership or a joint venture company.

Joint work
Defined in the Copyright Act as a work prepared by two or more authors with the intention that their contributions be merged into inseparable or interdependent parts of a unitary whole. To be a joint author, a writer must contribute an independently copyrightable portion of the work.

Jointress or jointuress
Jointress or Jointuress. Two or more persons who are entrusted with property for the benefit of one or more others.

Jointuress
Jointuress or Jointress . Two or more persons who are entrusted with property for the benefit of one or more others.

Jour

Journal
1) Maitim law. The book kept on board of a ship or other vessel, which contains an account of the ship's course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. Another name for logbook. 2) Common law. A book used among merchants, in which the contents of the waste-book are separated every month, and entered on the debtor and creditor side, for more convenient posting in the ledger. 3) Legislation. An account of the proceedings of a legislative body. The Constitution of the United States, directs that "each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings; and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy."

Journal entry fraud
Using accounting journal entries to fraudulently adjust financial statements.

Journeys account
English practice. When a writ abated without any fault of the plaintiff, he was permitted to sue out a new writ, within as little time as he possibly could after abatement of the first writ, which was quasi a continuance of the first writ, and placed him in a situation in which he would have been, supposing he had still, proceeded on that writ. This was called journeys account.

Judex
1) The judge, one who declares the law, quijus dicit; one who administers justice between the parties to a cause, when lawfully submitted to him. 2) The judicial power, or the court. 3) Anciently, by judex was also understood a juror.

Judex a quo
A judge from whom an appeal may be taken; a judge of a court below.

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