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Pump-and-dump
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Pump-and-dumpManipulating stock prices by artificially creating demand through rumor, high pressure sales tactics, or multiple large orders. The price is "pumped" upwards and then when other investors join the trend, the original investors "dump" the stock in a rapid sell-off.
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Stock
1) Merchant law. The capital of a merchant tradesman, or other person including his merchandise, money and credits. In a narrower sense it signifies only the goods and wares he has for sale and traffic. The capital of corporations is also called stock; this is usually divided into shares of a definite value, as one hundred dollars, fifty dollars per share. 2) Descents. This is a metaphorical expression which designates, in the genealogy of a family, the person from whom others are descended: those persons who have so descended are called branches.
Demand
Contracts. A claim; a legal obligation.
Rumor
A general public report of certain things, without any certainty as to their truth.
High
This word has various signifcations: 1. Principal or chief, as high constable, high sheriff. 2. Prominent, in a bad sense, as high treason. 3. Open, not confined, as high seas.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
Price
contracts. The consideration in money given for the purchase of a thing.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Original
Contracts, practice, evidence. An authentic instrument of something, and which is to serve as a model or example to be copied or imitated. It also means first, or not deriving any authority from any other source as, original jurisdiction, original writ, original bill, and the like .
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Pudzeld
English law. To be free from the payment of money for taking of wood in any forest.
Puer
In its enlarged sense this word signifies a child of either sex; though in its restrained meaning it is applied to a boy only.
Puerility
Civil law. This commenced at the age of seven years, the end of the age of infancy, and lasted till the age of puberty, that is, in females till the accomplishment of twelve years, and in males, till the age of fourteen years fully accomplished.
Puffer
Commerce, contracts. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to bid it up, who does so accordingly, for the purpose of raising the price upon bona fide bidders.
Puisne
Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge
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Punctuation
Construction. The act or method of placing points . in a written or printed instrument.
Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Damages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.
Pupil
Civil law. One who is in his or her minority.
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Stock
1) Merchant law. The capital of a merchant tradesman, or other person including his merchandise, money and credits. In a narrower sense it signifies only the goods and wares he has for sale and traffic. The capital of corporations is also called stock; this is usually divided into shares of a definite value, as one hundred dollars, fifty dollars per share. 2) Descents. This is a metaphorical expression which designates, in the genealogy of a family, the person from whom others are descended: those persons who have so descended are called branches.
Demand
Contracts. A claim; a legal obligation.
Rumor
A general public report of certain things, without any certainty as to their truth.
High
This word has various signifcations: 1. Principal or chief, as high constable, high sheriff. 2. Prominent, in a bad sense, as high treason. 3. Open, not confined, as high seas.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
Price
contracts. The consideration in money given for the purchase of a thing.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Original
Contracts, practice, evidence. An authentic instrument of something, and which is to serve as a model or example to be copied or imitated. It also means first, or not deriving any authority from any other source as, original jurisdiction, original writ, original bill, and the like .
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Pudzeld
English law. To be free from the payment of money for taking of wood in any forest.
Puer
In its enlarged sense this word signifies a child of either sex; though in its restrained meaning it is applied to a boy only.
Puerility
Civil law. This commenced at the age of seven years, the end of the age of infancy, and lasted till the age of puberty, that is, in females till the accomplishment of twelve years, and in males, till the age of fourteen years fully accomplished.
Puffer
Commerce, contracts. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to bid it up, who does so accordingly, for the purpose of raising the price upon bona fide bidders.
Puisne
Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge
Pump-and-dump
Punctuation
Construction. The act or method of placing points . in a written or printed instrument.
Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Damages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.
Pupil
Civil law. One who is in his or her minority.
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