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Yellow dog contract






Yellow dog contract

Yellow dog contract refers to the name given in American labor law to the contract of employment through which the employee agrees to forfeit their employment if they join a union during the period of employment. These contracts are now prohibited by American law.

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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.

Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Labor
Continued operation; work.

Employment
An employment is an office.

Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.

Union
By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.



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Yellow brick road
In the US penitentiary slang, yellow lines indicaing path that prisoners from stay within.



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Yeas and nays
The list of members of a legislative body voting in the affirmative and negative of a proposition is so called

Yeoman
1) United States. This word does not appear to have any very exact meaning. It is usually put as an addition to the names of parties in declarations and indictments. 2) In England it signifies a free man who has land of the value of forty shillings a year.

Yield capitalization
A capitalization method used to convert future benefits to present value by discounting each future benefit at an appropriate yield rate or by developing an overall rate that reflects the investment's income pattern, value change, and yield rate.

Yielding and paying contracts
These words, when used in a lease, constitute a covenant on the part of the lessee to pay the rent

York
Statute of York.The name of an English statute.So called because it was enacted at York.It contains many wise provisions and explanations of former statutes

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