TOKEN, commercial law. In England, this name is given to pieces of metal, made in the shape of money, passing among private persons by consent at a certain value. 2 Adolpb. P. S. 175; 2 Chit. Com. Law, 182.
Trifling, token, or slight; not real or substantial; in name only.
Nominal capital, for example, refers to extremely small or negligible funds, the use of which in a particular business is incidental.
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Nominal Damages Token (i.e. small) damages awarded to redress a violation of a legal right that the law deems necessary to protect, even in the absence of actual harm.
It may be first observed that gestures such as grasping hands, or putting one hand between the hands of another in token of homage, are sometimes treated as of the nature of oaths, but wrongly so, ...
In Pennsylvania, the words of the act are, "every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud another, shall designedly, by color of any false token or writing, or by any false pretence whatever, obtain from any person any money, ...
It refers to a small compansation or small amount of money paid to the plaintiff who has suffered a very minor damage or loss due to a misconduct or wrongful action of the defendant, As a token of honour to the rights of the plaintiff, ...
2 : being so small or trivial as to be a mere token <charging a ~ fee>
3 of a rate of interest ...
Additionally, Bill explains and demonstrates many of the secret signs and tokens by which Masons can recognized one another and can manipulate the business and legal world to their advantage. 'Take heed that no man deceive you.'; Matt. 24:4.
A cheat or fraud, indictable at common law, must be such as would affect the public, such as common prudence cannot guard against; as, using false weights and measures, or false tokens, or where there is a conspiracy to cheat.
In this way, the custodial parent was spared the travel and legal costs associated with having to defend the support petition in a distant state. But by the same token, ...
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