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Definition of Debentures
1. debenture [n] - See also: debenture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debentures
Literary usage of Debentures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Francis Beaufort Palmer (1881)
"The following precedent can \>c readily adapted to secure the payment of debentures
not redeemable by drawings. In such case the fourth recital will be that ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"The result was that we told them, in regard to the amount of debentures then
falling due, that instead of putting the conversion stock on the market in the ..."
3. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"And where a payment of six per cent interest had been made upon the debentures
without objection, it was held that although the holders could not recover ..."
4. Rural Credits, Land and Cooperative by Myron Timothy Herrick, R. Ingalls (1914)
"Denominations of debentures.—debentures Only in Exchange for Mortgage ...
Redemption of debentures on Repayment of Loan.—debentures as Investments. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The annuity consists of the interest on the debentures he selects, plus one-half
of 1 per cent of their face; and so the loan and the debentures exactly ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage by William Wyllys Mackeson, Henry Arthur Smith, Richard Holmes Coote (1884)
"Irregular debentures. If directors sign a document borrowing money for the ...
debentures. The securities given by companies are mortgages, debentures, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"debentures have never been legally defined apparently, though a definition may be
... Coupons for interest, whether attached or not to the debentures, ..."