The total amount of money that a company requires to pay its employees as applied to a specific period of time, for example, weekly or bimonthly. … [Read more...] about PAYROLL PERIOD
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PECULATUS
Latin: In the civil law. The offense of stealing or embezzling the public money. Hence the common English word "peculation" but "embezzlement" is the proper legal term. 4 Bl. Comm. 121, 122. … [Read more...] about PECULATUS
PAYROLL TAXES
Income taxes that are withheld from the amounts paid to employees which include FICA contributions and unemployment insurance contributions and deposited into a special account. … [Read more...] about PAYROLL TAXES
PECULIAR
In ecclesiastical law. A parish or church in England which has jurisdiction of ecclesiastical matters within itself, and independent of the ordinary, and is subject only to the metropolitan. … [Read more...] about PECULIAR
PAYS
The country. Trial per pays, is a trial by the country; that is, by jury. Vide Pais. … [Read more...] about PAYS
