A calculation of various factors concerning an individuals financial history that provide an indication as to their creditworthiness. Good credit scores are over 700 and low is 400-500 and under and indicate a high risk. The most popular company providing credit scores is FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation.) … [Read more...]
CREATIVE COMMONS
A nonprofit organization concerned with copyright that is dedicated to making intellectual property more freely available and accessible to the general public through its provision of licensing templates, some of which provide for somewhat liberal usage rights by the general public. … [Read more...]
CREDIT SHELTER TRUST
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CREDENTIALS
international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. They are, as it were, his letter of attorney, his mandate patent, mandatum manifestum. … [Read more...]
CREDIBILITY
Worthiness of belief. To entitle a witness to credibility, he must be competent. Vide Competency. 2. Human testimony can seldom acquire the certainty of demonstration. Witnesses not infrequently are mistaken or wish to deceive; the most that can be expected is that moral certainty which arises from analogy. The credibility which is attached to such testimony, arises. from the … [Read more...]