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101Delivery of the Franciscan Rule — Artist Colantonio Year 1445 Type Mixed technique on panel Dimensions 150 cm × 185 cm (59 in × 73 in) Location Ca …
102Net Present Value Rule — A rule stating that an investment should be accepted if its net present value is greater than zero and rejected otherwise. According to the theory of net present value (NPV), participating in a positive NPV project will increase firm or… …
103Pottery Store Rule — A phrase denoting the responsibility of America (and Britain) to rebuild Iraq following their invasion. Discussing the imminent withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, the BBC’s Mark Urban argued that: protest had a righteous place in trying to… …
104500 Investor Rule — A SEC stipulation requiring a company that exceeds 500 individual investors with more than $10 million in assets to file its financials with the Securities Exchange Commission. According to SEC rules, such a company has 120 days following the end …
105golden rule — the rule of construction that directs the person construing a provision, usually a statute, to read it according to the ordinary sense of the words unless, however, such a reading produces some illogicality or inconsistency. If this happens then… …
106literal rule — the rule of statutory interpretation that demands that a statute be interpreted according to its very words regardless of result and regardless of any attempt that can be made to find the intention of the legislator; thus no dogs allowed… …
107rank-size rule — UK US noun [S] (also rank size law, rank size distribution) ECONOMICS ► the principle that many things all over the world, for example the sizes of cities or businesses, or how rich people are, follow the same pattern in relation to their rank on …
108contemplation of parties rule — The rule of damages applied in actions for breach of contract that the damages recoverable for the breach are such as may fairly and reasonably be considered as arising naturally that is, according to the usual course of things from the breach of …
109shopbook rule — The rule of evidence under which the books of account of a party are rendered admissible as evidence of goods sold and delivered or of services performed, it being the rule in the great majority of the states to admit entries in books made in the …
110station in life rule — The rule that the amount and character of the benefits to which one for whose support provision is made in a testamentary instrument is entitled must be determined according to his station in life. Anno: 101 ALR 1499 et seq. A similar rule which… …
