- Notice of Dishonour: Notice given by the holder of a bill of exchange to the drawer when the bill is refused or delayed payment
- Stare Decisis: Let the decision stand. The policy of courts to abide by or adhere to principles established by decisions in earlier cases
- Abscond: To hide; withdraw; to depart clandestinely. To go out of the jurisdiction of the courts, or to conceal oneself to avoid legal process.
- Docket: A list of cases scheduled to be heard in court on a specific day or week
- Decree: An order that has force of law
- Mens Rea: The intention or knowledge of wrong doing that constitutes part of a crime, as opposed to the action or conduct of the accused
- Pro Bono Publico: For the public good
- Judgement Creditor: A party to which the debt is owed that has proved the debt in a legal proceeding and that is entitled to use judicial process to collect the debt; the owner of an unsatisfied court decision
- Judgement Debtor: Any person against whom a decree has been passed
- Tapering - It is the process of reducing the pace of purchasing assets with money created out of thin air.
- Squeeze - To be strict about the monies and limit how much is available to a Company or an Organisation.
- Boil the Ocean - To undertake an impossible task or project or to make a task or project unnecessarily difficult. Boiling the Ocean generally means to go overboard.
- Dead Cat Bounce - A temporary recovery from a prolonged decline or bear market, followed by the continuation of the downtrend. A Dead Cat Bounce is a small, short-lived recovery in the Price of a Security, such as a Stock.
- Bleeding Edge - It is a category of technologies incorporating those so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and lead adopters to incur greater expenses in order to make use of them.
- Open the Kimono - To reveal what is being planned or to share important information freely. Similar to "open the books" or an "open door policy", Opening the Kimono means Revealing the inner workings of a Project or Company to an outside Party.
- Big Uglies - They are the stocks that provide solid, long term earnings, growth and Dividends like old Industrial Companies in gritty Industries (such as mining, steel and oil) and as a result, they tend to be unpopular stocks with Investors looking for bargain priced stocks.
