(1) The public solicitation of orders for a PRIMARY OFFERING before REGISTRATION is complete. (2) TRADING of securities on the basis of nonpublic information (as a form of INSIDER TRADING). Gun jumping in either form is illegal in most national jurisdictions.
Solicitation of interest in a public offer before the registration is filed. It is an illegal act and will create penalties.
A model that compares military spending and food supplies in a nations spending. It shows the increase of one relying on the decreasing of the other.
Slang term for a broker that is searching for the next big thing.
Lat. Properly a whirlpool, but in old English law and conveyancing, a deeppit filled with water, distinguished from “stagnum,” which was a shallow pool or pond.Co. Litt. 5; Johnson v. Rayuer, 0 Gray (Mass.) 107.
The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild.The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. Themercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed to have given rise to thepresent municipal corporations of England, whose place of meeting is still called the “Guildhall.”
Wears. Jacob.
An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of thedeath penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weightedknife-blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is made to fall from aconsiderable height upon the neck of the sufferer, immovably fixed in position toreceive the Impact.
Inventory that is seperated in three categories. They are general items used often, unique items used in one way, and specific items only in one product.
A loan that needs little documentation from the beneficiary to cash it in. AKA suicide credit.