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YELLOW DOG CONTRACT

An illegal work contract where the employee is asked not to join a union and if he is a member to resign.

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YANKEE

A note issued in US dollars by a foreign company in the market.

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YANKEE BOND

Dollar denomination bond sold in USA by a foreign bank. Equivalent to a Eurobond.

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YARD

A measure of length, containing three feet, or thirty-six inches.UA piece of land inclosed for the use and accommodation of the inhabitants of a house.

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YARD LUMBER

Run of mill lumber in various finishes, widths and lengths.

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YARDLAND

or virgata torrce, is a quantity of land, said by some to be twenty acres,y but by Coke to be of uncertain extent

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YEA AND NAY

Yes and no. According to a charter of Athelstan, the people of Riponwere to be believed in all actions or suits upon their yea aud nay, without the yynecessity of taking any oath. Brown.

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YEAR

The period in which the revolution of the earth round the sun, and the accompanyingchanges in the order of nature, are completed. Generally, when a statute Yspeaks of a year, twelve calendar, and not lunar, months are intended. Cro. Jac. 166.The year is either astronomical, ecclesiastical, or regnal, beginning on the 1st ofJanuary, or 25th of March, or the day of the sover- w eign’s accession. Wharton.I

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