Bond, in finance, a loan contract issued by local, state, or national governments and by private corporations specifying an obligation to return borrowed funds.
The Whirlpool Corporation, for example, specified in full-page print advertisements this year that 80 percent of its appliances "sold in the U.S. come from our U.S. factories".
Originally, governments chartered corporations only for specified public purposes.
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The bond, as a debt instrument, represents the promise of a corporation to pay a fixed sum at a specified maturity date, and interest at regular intervals until then.
Requesters can be individuals or corporations, and can list jobs along with a specified compensation.
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The corporation is authorized to insure bank deposits in eligible banks up to a specified maximum amount that has been adjusted through the years.
Islam's alternative to the nonprofit corporation was the waqf, a trust established in accordance with Shariah to deliver specified services forever, through trustees bound by essentially fixed instructions.
Thus, stockholders under certain statutes have a personal liability making them individually responsible for the debts of the corporation to the extent of the par value of their stock or some other specified limit.
Commissioner Safir cited a January ruling by the City Law Department, in which Corporation Counsel Michael D. Hess found that lying does not fall into any of the complaint categories specified under the charter.
