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Rights can be divided into individual rights, that are held by citizens as individuals (or corporations) recognised by the legal system, and into collective rights, ...

 


Rights-on
shares trading with rights attached to them.
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Consumer Bill of Rights
Webster's dictionary defines consumerism as "a movement for the protection of the consumer against defective products, misleading advertising, etc." Limited consumer protection was present until the 1950s and early 1960s.

rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. These rights can be enforced by court action.

The rights of every citizen to freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, freedom to enjoy privacy and autonomy in the management of one's personal affairs, ...

legal rights
Definition
Legally guaranteed powers available to a legal entity in realization or defense of its just and lawful claims or interests (such as individual freedom) against 'The whole world.

Resale rights have become popular with the popularity of the Internet. A very similar idea called reprint rights existed before the Internet.

Special Drawing Rights
Definition
SDR. A measure of a country's reserve assets in the international monetary system. also called paper gold.
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Rights allow existing shareholders of a corporation to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before that stock is offered to the public.

Rights Issue - Rights Issue is the permission of a company or corporation to existing shareholders.

Rights are options with a relatively short life span that are originally given to existing shareholders to buy additional shares at a specified subscription price. Rights may be exercised by the current shareholders or they may be sold.

Stock rights are rights issued to stockholders of a CORPORATION that entitle them to purchase new shares of stock in the corporation for a stated price that is often substantially less than the FAIR MARKET VALUE of the stock.

Rights
When a company wants to raise more funds by issuing additional securities, it may give its stockholders the opportunity, ahead of others, to buy the new securities in proportion to the number of shares each owns.

Rights issue
A way for a company to raise money by issuing more shares in an offer to shareholders. As a shareholder you have a "right" to a certain number of shares under the terms of the offer, ie one new share for every five you hold.

Rights in real estate or in items attached to real estate.
Realignment of Currencies
Simultaneous and mutually coordinated revaluation and devaluation of the currencies of several countries.

Rights offering Issuance of "rights" to current shareholders allowing them to purchase additional shares, usually at a to market price. Shareholders who do not these rights are usually diluted by the offering.

Rights Offering: Rights are a special type of option that have a short market life (usually no more than a few weeks). The right enables the shareholder to buy shares of the new issue at a specified price prior to sale publicly.

Rightsizing.
Organization structure, however, is more than the boxes on a chart; more than the number of employees, positions, or jobs; and more than business processes (e.g.

Rights: Options granted to shareholders to purchase additional shares directly from the company concerned. Rights are issued to shareholders in proportion to the securities they may hold in a company.

Rights that will result in the inclusion of life insurance policy proceeds in the policyholder's estate for federal estate tax purposes.
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Rights - Attributes given to the owner of an option.
Rolling a Position - The process of buying a previously sold option, and selling a different option with a more distant expiration. It is often done near expiration.

rights issue: an offer of additional shares to existing shareholders, in proportion to their holdings, to raise money for the company. Rights issues are renounceable, meaning the shareholder can sell his or her right to the shares.

Rights Issue
An offer made to a holder of an existing security to purchase new securities issued by the same company at a discount to the existing market, and able to be exercised within a relatively short (30-60 days) time span.

Rights to purchase a corporation's stock at a specified price.
Stock-Option Plan:
This type of plan allows an employee to buy a set number of shares of a company's stock at a future date at a set price.

Rights Arbitrage
The simultaneous purchase and sale of different securities in anticipation of a merger or tender offer.
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Rights issue
An invitation to existing shareholders to purchase additional shares in the company.

Rights offering
In a rights offering, also known as a subscription right, a company offers existing shareholders the opportunity to buy additional shares of company stock at a discount, ...

Rights offering
Issuance to shareholders that allows them to purchase additional shares, usually at a discount to market price. Holdings of shareholders who do not exercise rights are usually diluted by the offering.

RIGHTS AND NEGOTIATIONS - A section of a typical office lease clearly outlining the rights and obligations of the parties named in the lease.

Rights Offering (Issue)
Issuing rights to a company's existing shareholders to buy a proportional number of additional securities at a given price (usually at a discount) within a fixed period.
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Rights Offering
Offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold rights that entitles then to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which shares will later be offered to the public.
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Rights Offering
The distribution to existing stockholders of rights to purchase shares that are part of a new common stock issue.
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Rights of survivorship
If two or more people own property jointly with rights of survivorship and one of the owners should die, the deceased owner's share of the property automatically passes to the surviving owners.

Rights of individuals and companies to own and utilize property as they see fit and to receive the stream of income that their property generates.
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Rights Agreement (aka "Poison Pill")
An anti-takeover arrangement often established by a company in anticipation of a hostile takeover attempt.

Rights are transferable, and may be traded on the secondary market. For example, if you don't wish to purchase additional shares, you may choose to sell your rights.

Rights The option the company gives to shareholders in which the shareholders can buy a pro rata share of a new common stock issue at a specific price prior to the stock being made widely available for purchase.

rights offering: The issuing of rights to current shareholders to buy a proportionate number of additional securities at a discounted price within a certain time period.
risk: The likelihood that an investment will lose money.

Rights offering: A rights offering occurs when a corporation makes new shares (called "rights") available to its existing shareholders, thus allowing them to maintain their existing proportion of ownership in the corporation.

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* Rights of the buyer and rights of the seller during and after the sale process.

Ex-rights. Corporations raising additional money may do so by offering stockholders the right to subscribe to new or additional stock, usually at a discount from the prevailing market price.

Ex-Rights - Refers to a transaction which the new purchaser of a stock is not entitled to participate in the recently declared rights offering. The mechanics are similar to ex-dividend conditions.

Ex-rights
Shares of stock that are trading without rights attached.
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Ex-rights date
The date on which a share of common stock with rights on it begins tradingex-rights.
Expropriation
The taking over of a company or project by the state, implying compensation will be paid. Nationalization.

copyrights apply to creative and artistic works (e.g. books, movies, music, paintings, photographs, and software) and give the copyright holder the exclusive right to control reproduction and modification of such works for a certain period of time ...

The rights of an owner of land adjacent to water.
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CUM-RIGHTS " With right: During a rights offering, the time period during which the purchaser of stock will receive the rights.

Cum rights
With rights.
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With rights Shares sold accompanied by entitlement the buyer to buy additional shares in the company's rights issue.
Withdrawal plan Agreement that a mutual fund will disburse automatic periodic redemptions to the investor.

XR (Ex-Rights)
A security that is trading without rights attached. The abbreviation "XR" is used in newspaper stock listings.
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voting rights: Shareholders elect members of the board of directors. They also may vote on certain issues affecting the corporation. Voting is generally conducted on a one-share-one-vote basis.

Voting Rights. Stockholders' rights to vote in the affairs of the company. Most common shares have one vote per share, although some Canadian companies have voting and non-voting shares.

voting rights: the rights that shareholders have to vote on matters affecting a corporation
volume: An amount or quantity of business; the volume of a business is the total it sells over a period of time.

Voting rights
The right to vote on matters that are put to a vote of security holders. For example the right to vote for directors.
Voting stock
The shares in a corporation that entitle the shareholder to vote.

Mineral Rights
Ownership rights to the minerals or other precious resources, in one's property. The privilege of gaining income from the sale of oil, gas, and other valuable resources found on land.

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