SHORT NOTICE

In practice. Notice of less than the ordinary time ; generally of half that time. 2 Tidd, Pr. 757. … [Read more...] about SHORT NOTICE

A term applied colloquially, but without much precision, to a lease for a short term, (as a month or a year,) as distinguished from one running for a long period. … [Read more...] about SHORT LEASE

A term used among bankers, which takes, place when a note has been sent to a bank for collection, and an entry of it is made in the customer's bank book, stating the amount in an inner column, and carrying it out into the accounts between the parties when it has been paid. 2. A bill of this kind remains the property of the depositor. 3. A custom of bankers of entering on the … [Read more...] about SHORT ENTRY

A cause which is not likely to occupy a great portion of the time of the court, and which may be entered on the list of "short causes," upon the applicar tion of one of the parties, and will then be heard more speedily than it would be in its regular order. This practice obtains in the English chancery and in some of the American states. … [Read more...] about SHORT CAUSE

1. Brief, small. 2. A type of sale of securities; see short sale. … [Read more...] about SHORT