Terms beginning with Y
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- Y2K warrantyA supplier's promise that a computer product would handle dates after the year 2000 correctly, given widely in the la…
- yardlandA variable measure of land, often about twenty acres.
- yardstick theoryIn antitrust law, a way of measuring lost profits, and sometimes overcharges, by comparing the plaintiff with a simil…
- yearTwelve calendar months running from January 1 to December 31; also any period of twelve calendar months, whenever it…
- Year 2000 warrantyA supplier's promise that a computer product would handle dates after the year 2000 correctly, given widely in the la…
- year and a dayThe common-law period fixed for many purposes - claiming rights, exemptions, or property such as wreckage or stray an…
- Year BooksReports of cases, published anonymously and fairly regularly, covering chiefly the period from the reign of Edward I…
- year in mourningThe year after a married man's death, during which his widow could not remarry, so that there could be no doubt about…
- Year of Our LordIn the year of the Lord: used with a date to mark years counted from the traditional birth of Christ.
- year-and-a-day ruleThe common-law rule that a killing is not homicide if the victim dies more than a year and a day after the act. Most…
- year-end dividendAn extra dividend paid at the end of the financial year, its size depending on the profits made.
- year-to-year tenancyA tenancy that renews itself from year to year until one side gives notice at the end of a period.
- year, day, and wasteThe Crown's right to the profits of a convicted traitor's or felon's land for a year and a day, and to lay it waste,…
- yeas and naysThe votes for and against a bill or resolution, taken by calling each member's name.
- yellow-dog contractAn employment contract forbidding the worker to join a union. Federal and state law now make such contracts unenforce…
- yeomanFormerly, an attendant in a royal or noble household; also a commoner, above all a small farmer who owned his own land.
- yeoman of the guardA member of the corps that ceremonially guards the English royal household. A yeoman of the guard is usually at least…
- yeomanryYeomen taken as a body; also the volunteer cavalry of Great Britain, later absorbed into the Territorial Army.
- yevenGiven, or dated.
- Yick Wo doctrineThe principle that a law giving an official complete discretion to grant or refuse permission to carry on a lawful bu…
- yieldProfit expressed as a percentage of what was invested.
- yield on investmentProfit expressed as a percentage of what was invested.
- yield spreadThe gap in yield between one issue of securities and another.
- yield to maturityThe return an investment gives if it is held until it matures.
- yo-yo stockStock whose price swings widely and quickly.
- yokeletFormerly, a small farm needing only one yoke of oxen to work it.
- yomanFormerly, an attendant in a royal or noble household; also a commoner, above all a small farmer who owned his own land.
- York-Antwerp rulesA set of rules for settling maritime losses and disputes arising under bills of lading. They have no force of statute…
- York, custom ofA custom of York by which a man who died without a will had his goods divided into fixed shares, a reasonable part go…
- York, Statute ofAn English statute passed at York in the twelfth year of Edward II's reign, dealing with attorneys, witnesses, and th…
- young offenderA person in late adolescence or early adulthood convicted of a crime. Such offenders are often eligible for programs…
- Younger abstentionA federal court's decision not to interfere with a state criminal case by injunction or declaration, unless the prose…
- your HonorThe title customarily used in addressing a judge or other high official directly.
- your witnessYou may now question the witness: a lawyer's announcement in court that they have finished questioning and the other…
- youthful offenderA person in late adolescence or early adulthood convicted of a crime, who is often eligible for programs closed to ol…
- YTMThe return an investment gives if it is held until it matures.