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Definition of Dividends
1. dividend [n] - See also: dividend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dividends
Literary usage of Dividends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Much more, if dividends are not income before they are payable, are they not
income before they are declared Î I repeat, then, the taxes in controversy now ..."
2. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"Analogous provisions: In US: As to first and subsequent dividends, ...
Cross-references: To the law: Referees to declare dividends and to prepare and ..."
3. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1914)
"UNCLAIMED dividends. § 66. Unclaimed dividends.—a dividends which remain unclaimed
for six months after the final dividend has been declared shall be paid ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"An Annuity granted by the husband out of the dividends, to which he was entitled
for life, the trustees giving a power of attorney to receive the dividends, ..."
5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1850)
"The dividends are paid semi-annually, in October and April. ... We now subjoin
a statement of the semi annual dividends declared and payable on the first of ..."
6. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"Party entitled to dividends where Stock has been fraudulently transferred. 1.
... One who buys stock in faith of the dividends, but subsequent buna fide ..."
7. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"them as special dividends.50 In 1919 the United States government forced the packing
... The whole subject of stock and security dividends has assumed a new ..."
8. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"How dividends May Be Used.— Having explained the sources of the surplus, and the
methods of ascertaining and apportioning it, we may next pass to a ..."