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Underwriting agreement
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Underwriting agreementAn underwriting agreement in one under which, before a company issues shares to the public, a person undertakes in consideration of a commission to take up the whole or a portion of such of the offered shares as may not be subscribed for by the public.
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Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
Issues
English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite has been issued, taken by virtue of such writ, are called issues.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Consideration
Under common law, there can be no binding contract without consideration, which was defined in an 1875 English decision as "some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other". Common law did not want to allow gratuitous offers, those made without anything offered in exchange (such as gifts), to be given the protection of contract law. So they added the criteria of consideration. Consideration is not required in contracts made in civil law systems and many common law states have adopted laws which remove consideration as a prerequisite of a valid contract.
Commission
1) Contracts, civil law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synonymously with mandate. 2) Criminal law. The act of perpetrating an offence. 3) Office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter. 4) practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any other act by authority of such court, or tribunal, is called a commission. 5) Government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to perform the duties of his office.
Take
This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled to; as, a devisee will take under the will. To take also signifies to seize, as to take and carry away.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
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Unde nihil habet
Of which she has nothing. When no dower had been assigned to the widow during the time prescribed by law, she could, at common law, sue out a writ of dower unde nihil habet.
Under-ring
To record less than the actual sales price. Usually refers to a cashier ringing a sale on a cash register. Under-rings may be a method used in Skimming cash by the cashier, or they may be used to give unauthorized discounts to an Accomplice.
Under-sheriff
A deputy of a sheriff. The principal is called high-sheriff, and the deputy the under-sheriff.
Under-tenant
One who holds by virtue of an underlease.
Under-tutor
Law of Louisiana. In every tutorship, there shall be an undertutor, whom it shall be the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship are certified for the tutor.
Undercover
Secret or Covert Operations where a person works under an assumed identity, adopts a disguise, or takes on an assumed role in order to gather evidence.
Underlease
Contracts. An alienation by a tenant of a part of his lease, reserving to himself a reversion; it differs from an assignment, which is a transfer of all the tenant's interest in the lease. And even a conveyance of the whole estate by the lessee, reserving to himself the rent, with a power of re-entry for non-payment, was held to be, not an assignment, but an underlease.
Undertaking
Contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other; a promise.
Undertook
Assumed; promised.
Underwriter
Insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he becomes an insurer.
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Undertaking
Contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other; a promise.
Under-tenant
One who holds by virtue of an underlease.
Undertook
Assumed; promised.
Under-tutor
Law of Louisiana. In every tutorship, there shall be an undertutor, whom it shall be the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship are certified for the tutor.
Underwriter
Insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he becomes an insurer.
Underwriting agreement
Undivided
That which is held by the same title by two or more persons, whether their rights are equal, as to value or quantity, or unequal.
Undue influence
Whatever destroys free will and causes a person to do something he would not do if left to himself.
Unethical
Behavior that does not meet community standards for "right behavior," but that does not violate any laws either.
Unfair dismissal
An employee who has been dismissed can make a claim to an Industrial Tribunal that he has been unfairly dismissed. If the employer is unable to show that the dismissal was fair, based on a limited number of grounds, the Industrial Tribunal will award compensation up to a statutory maximum to be paid by the employer to the former employee. Unfair dismissal applies irrespective of any contractual period of notice.Unfair dismissal should not be confused with wrongful dismissal.
Unfair labor practice
Actions by the employer which interfere with, restrain, coerce, or threaten employees with respect to their rights.
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Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
Issues
English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite has been issued, taken by virtue of such writ, are called issues.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Consideration
Under common law, there can be no binding contract without consideration, which was defined in an 1875 English decision as "some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other". Common law did not want to allow gratuitous offers, those made without anything offered in exchange (such as gifts), to be given the protection of contract law. So they added the criteria of consideration. Consideration is not required in contracts made in civil law systems and many common law states have adopted laws which remove consideration as a prerequisite of a valid contract.
Commission
1) Contracts, civil law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synonymously with mandate. 2) Criminal law. The act of perpetrating an offence. 3) Office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter. 4) practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any other act by authority of such court, or tribunal, is called a commission. 5) Government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to perform the duties of his office.
Take
This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled to; as, a devisee will take under the will. To take also signifies to seize, as to take and carry away.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Unde nihil habet
Of which she has nothing. When no dower had been assigned to the widow during the time prescribed by law, she could, at common law, sue out a writ of dower unde nihil habet.
Under-ring
To record less than the actual sales price. Usually refers to a cashier ringing a sale on a cash register. Under-rings may be a method used in Skimming cash by the cashier, or they may be used to give unauthorized discounts to an Accomplice.
Under-sheriff
A deputy of a sheriff. The principal is called high-sheriff, and the deputy the under-sheriff.
Under-tenant
One who holds by virtue of an underlease.
Under-tutor
Law of Louisiana. In every tutorship, there shall be an undertutor, whom it shall be the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship are certified for the tutor.
Undercover
Secret or Covert Operations where a person works under an assumed identity, adopts a disguise, or takes on an assumed role in order to gather evidence.
Underlease
Contracts. An alienation by a tenant of a part of his lease, reserving to himself a reversion; it differs from an assignment, which is a transfer of all the tenant's interest in the lease. And even a conveyance of the whole estate by the lessee, reserving to himself the rent, with a power of re-entry for non-payment, was held to be, not an assignment, but an underlease.
Undertaking
Contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other; a promise.
Undertook
Assumed; promised.
Underwriter
Insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he becomes an insurer.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Undertaking
Contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other; a promise.
Under-tenant
One who holds by virtue of an underlease.
Undertook
Assumed; promised.
Under-tutor
Law of Louisiana. In every tutorship, there shall be an undertutor, whom it shall be the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship are certified for the tutor.
Underwriter
Insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he becomes an insurer.
Underwriting agreement
Undivided
That which is held by the same title by two or more persons, whether their rights are equal, as to value or quantity, or unequal.
Undue influence
Whatever destroys free will and causes a person to do something he would not do if left to himself.
Unethical
Behavior that does not meet community standards for "right behavior," but that does not violate any laws either.
Unfair dismissal
An employee who has been dismissed can make a claim to an Industrial Tribunal that he has been unfairly dismissed. If the employer is unable to show that the dismissal was fair, based on a limited number of grounds, the Industrial Tribunal will award compensation up to a statutory maximum to be paid by the employer to the former employee. Unfair dismissal applies irrespective of any contractual period of notice.Unfair dismissal should not be confused with wrongful dismissal.
Unfair labor practice
Actions by the employer which interfere with, restrain, coerce, or threaten employees with respect to their rights.
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