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RESTRICTED SECURITIES

Securities that have been acquired as a result of a transaction but are not available or able to be made available for public purchase. … [Read more...] about RESTRICTED SECURITIES

The net income and earnings of the business that are not distributed to shareholders via dividends and are reinvested in the core business or used to pay debt. … [Read more...] about RETAINED EARNINGS

RESPONSA PRUDENTUM

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civil law. Opinions given by Roman lawyers. Before the time of Augustus, every lawyer was authorized de jure, to answer questions put to him, and all such answers, response prudentum had equal authority, which had not the force of law, but the opinion of a lawyer. Augustus was the first prince who gave to certain distinguished jurisconsults the particular privilege of answering … [Read more...] about RESPONSA PRUDENTUM

RESTAURANT

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This term, as currently understood, means only, or chiefly, an eating-house; but it has no such fixed and definite legal meaning as necessarily to exclude its being an "inn" in the legal sense. Lewis v. Hitchcock (D. C.) 10 Fed. 4. … [Read more...] about RESTAURANT

RESPONSALIS

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old Eng. law., One who appeared for another in court. Fleta, lib. 6, c., 21. In the ecclesiastical law, this name is sometimes given to a proctor. … [Read more...] about RESPONSALIS

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