Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ATTORNEY GENERAL - The chief law officer of the federal or state government, who appears for the people...
  
  
• ATTORNEY IN FACT - A type of agency relationship where one person holds a POWER OF ATTORNEY allowing hi...
  
  
• ATTORNEY'S CERTIFICATE OF TITLE - See title opinion.
  
  
• ATTORNEY'S OPINION OF TITLE - An abstract of title that an attorney has examined and has certified to b...
  
  
• ATTORNEY-IN-FACT - A competent and disinterested person who is authorized by another person to act in h...
  
  
• ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE - "Attractive" refers to the response of children to a feature of land (whether nat...
  
  
• ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE DOCTRINE - An owner has a duty to reasonably protect children from injury when his ...
  
  
• ATTRACTOR - In non-linear dynamic series, an attractor defines the equilibrium level of the system. See...
  
  
• ATTRIBUTE BIAS - The tendency of stocks preferred by the dividend discount model to share certain equit...
  
  
• ATTRITION - a reduction in numbers usually as a result of resignation, retirement, or death.