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Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown. … [Read more...] about INSTALLMENTS

A name sometimes given to text-books containing the elementary principles of jurisprudence, arranged in an orderly and systematic manner. For example, the Institutes of Justinian, of Galus, of Lord Coke. Institutes of Gains. An elementary work of the Roman jurist Gains; important as having formed the foundation of the Institutes of Justinian, (g. vr) These Institutes were … [Read more...] about INSTITUTES

In pleading and practice. Solicitation, properly of an earnest or urgent kind. An act is often said to be done at a party's "special instance and request." In the civil and French law. A general term, designating all sorts of actions and judicial, demands. Dig. 44, 7, 58, In ecclesiastical law. Causes of instance are those proceeded in at the solicitation of some party, as … [Read more...] about INSTANCE

One of the branches of the English admiralty is called an instance court. Vide Instance Court. Eng. law. The English court of admiralty is divided into two distinct tribunals; the one having, generally, all the jurisdiction of the admiralty, except in prize cases, is called the instance court; the other, acting under a special commission, distinct from the usual commission … [Read more...] about INSTANCE COURT

When a person on the inside of a corporation who has special knowledge of its workings that is not known to the public uses this private information to acquire profits or avoid losses in making market trades. The most common examples include trading by corporate officers, directors or employees based upon their confidential and privileged knowledge that is not public, e.g. … [Read more...] about INSIDER TRADING