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CONVERTIBLE SECURITY

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When a bond or stock can be converted into another form, typically bonds or preferred shares being able to be exchanged for common shares of the same company. … [Read more...]

CONVEY

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To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed or instrument under seal. To convey real estate is by an appropriate instrument to transfer the legal title to it from the present owner to another. Convey relates properly to the disposition of real property not to personal. … [Read more...]

CONVENTION

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(A) contracts, civil law. A general term which comprehends all kinds of contracts, treaties, pacts, or agreements. It is defined to be the consent of two or more persons to form with each other an engagement, or to dissolve or change one which they had previously formed. (B) legislation. This term is applied to a selecting of the delegates elected by the people for other … [Read more...]

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