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111Hague Securities Convention — The Hague Securities Convention is an international multilateral treaty intended to remove, globally, legal uncertainties for cross border securities transactions. [http://hcch.e vision.nl/index en.php?act=conventions.text cid=72] The Convention… …
112Closed adoption — (also called confidential adoption and sometimes secret adoption) is the process by where an infant is adopted by another family, and the record of the biological parent(s) is kept sealed. (Often, the biological father is not recorded even on the …
113The Logos — The Logos † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Logos The word Logos is the term by which Christian theology in the Greek language designates the Word of God, or Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Before St. John had consecrated this term… …
114Judaism — /jooh dee iz euhm, day , deuh /, n. 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the… …
115Look-through approach — The look through approach is a conflict of laws rule applied to the proprietary aspects of security transactions. It is an application of the traditional lex rei sitae test. The approach is feasible where registered securities are held entirely… …
116Registered Retirement Savings Plan — A Registered Retirement Savings Plan or RRSP is an account that provides tax benefits for saving for retirement in Canada. RRSP refers to a provision in the Income Tax Act that allows a person to shelter financial property from income taxes.RRSPs …
117Fund and release — (also called Threshold Pledge) is a system developed to address one of the problems of distributed funding: that before putting up their own money, contributors need to be assured that others are also contributing. In a fund and release system, a …
118subatomic particle — or elementary particle Any of various self contained units of matter or energy. Discovery of the electron in 1897 and of the atomic nucleus in 1911 established that the atom is actually a composite of a cloud of electrons surrounding a tiny but… …
119Murabaha — An Islamic financing structure, where an intermediary buys a property with free and clear title to it. The intermediary and prospective buyer then agree upon a sale price (including an agreed upon profit for the intermediary) that can be made… …
120KABBALAH — This entry is arranged according to the following outline: introduction general notes terms used for kabbalah the historical development of the kabbalah the early beginnings of mysticism and esotericism apocalyptic esotericism and merkabah… …
