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contracts. The placing a signature at the bottom of a written or printed engagement; or it is the attestation of a witness by so writing his name; but it has been holden that the attestation of an illiterate witness, by making his mark, is a sufficient subscription. 2. By subscription is also understood the act by which a person contracts, in writing, to furnish a sum of money … [Read more...] about SUBSCRIPTION

The names of persons who have agreed to take a newspaper, magazine or other publication, placed upon paper, is a subscription list. 2. This is, an incident to a newspaper, and passes with the sale of the printing materials. 2 Watts, 111. … [Read more...] about SUBSCRIPTION LIST

A shareholder who has an option (a subscription) to buy additional identical shares of stock at a favorable price. … [Read more...] about SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS

(A) practice. A writ or process of the same kind as the subpoena ad testificandum, including a clause requiring the witness to bring with him and produce to the court, books, papers, in his hands, tending to elucidate the matter in issue. (B) A special subpoena requested by a party to have the court to order a witness to produce certain documents at a deposition or trial. When … [Read more...] about SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM

Latin: In Roman law. Lower seats or benches, occupied by the ju dices and by inferior magistrates when they sat in judgment, as distinguished from the tribunal of the praetor. Calvin. Subsequens matrimonium tollit pecca tum prsecedens. A subsequent marriage [of the parties] removes a previous fault, ?. e., previous illicit intercourse, and legitimates the offspring. A rule of … [Read more...] about SUBSELLIA