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Definition of Overissue
1. n. An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority.
2. v. t. To issue in excess.
Definition of Overissue
1. Verb. (economics) To issue shares or banknotes to an extent beyond the ability to pay, or in excess of authorization ¹
2. Noun. The act of so overissuing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overissue
1. [v -SUED, -SUING, -SUES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overissue
Literary usage of Overissue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"History shows that overissue, always threatened by paper money, has rarely been
avoided. Resort to this easy way of meeting public expenditures has usually ..."
2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1911)
"History shows that overissue, always threatened by paper money, has rarely been
avoided. Resort to this easy way of meeting public expenditures has usually ..."
3. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1867)
"... in regard to a few companies, which is denominated the overissue of stock.
By this is understood an express fraud by managing directors, or agents, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1917)
"In case of overissue. Where by mistake the mortgagor issued and sold more bonds
than provided for in the mortgage, and the holders of the extra bonds bought ..."
5. Practical Bank Operation by Loyd Helvetius Langston, First National City Bank of New York (1921)
"Checks Against overissue To replace the surrendered certificate, the transfer
agent issues a new one, using from its supply of blank certificates the one ..."
6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1902)
"An overissue of stock does not, however, avoid the original Issue: Byers v. ...
What Amounts to an overissue.—In several instances the question has arisen ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in Ohio Courts of Record by Robert D. Handy, William Disney (1899)
"Not evidence that the certificate was an overissue, which it claims :t was not;
but evidence that if it was an overissue it was the fraud of the defendant ..."
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