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• J. K. Rowling
  ...wrote in many cafés, especially Nicolson's Café (owned by her brother-in-law),<ref name=kirkbio>{{cite book|last=Kirk|first=Connie Ann|title=J.K. Rowlin ...sionals raised problems with First Minister [[Alex Salmond]]'s plans for a common research funding.<ref name="GuardBT" /> Rowling compared some Scottish Nati
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• Insurance policy
  ...lder, which determines the [[claim (legal)|claims]] which the insurer is [[law|legally]] required to pay. In exchange for an initial payment, known as the ...t/uploads/2011/07/522.pdf Reasonable Expectations Revisited]. ''Conn. Ins. Law Journal''.</ref> In several jurisdictions, including California, Wyoming,
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• Knock-for-knock agreement
  ..., analogous sense, for example, the following, cited in the "[[Laws of war|Law at War]]", from the [[US Army]] website [http://www.army.mil]: ...d forces.<ref>[http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/Law-War/law-05.htm LAW AT WAR: VIETNAM 1964-1973, Chapter 5: Claims Administration]</ref>
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• External risk
  ==In contract law== In [[contract law]], are risks that are produced by a non-human source and are beyond [[human
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• Surety bond
  ...ight Of Surety To Subrogation Against Third Party|website=scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu|access-date=2016-03-21}}</ref> {{cite book|last=Gallagher|first=Edward Graham|title=The Law of Suretyship|year=2000|publisher=American Bar Association|pages=27}}</ref>
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• Cell captive
  ...te and issue cell shares with respect to any of the cells. There may be a common board of directors for all cells or cells may have their own unique board.< •The Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (the “Law”) provides for the creation of the incorporated cell company. An ICC is a
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• Moral hazard
  ...1-19 |accessdate=2008-11-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|ssrn=1321666 |title=Common (Stock) Sense about Risk-Shifting and Bank Bailouts|publisher=SSRN.com |dat ...link= |year=1996 |title=On the Genealogy of Moral hazard |periodical=Texas Law Review |volume=75 |issue= |page=237 |url= |issn=0040-4411 |doi= }}</ref> an
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• Actuarial science
  ...rtantly, both the short and long term financial and economic trends. It is common with mergers and acquisitions that several pension plans have to be combine ...egree of accuracy how much each person in the group should contribute to a common fund assumed to earn a fixed rate of interest. The first person to demonstr
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• Insurance
  ...ritime-Law--800-BC.aspx|title=Lex Rhodia: The Ancient Ancestor of Maritime Law - 800 BC}}</ref> ...emiums from policyholders and paid the nominees of deceased members from a common fund.''</ref><ref>Amicable Society, ''The charters, acts of Parliament, and
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• Structured settlement
  ...settlements have become part of the statutory tort law of several [[common law]] countries including [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[England]] and the [[Unit ...uctured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgements |year=1986 |publisher= Law Journal Press |location= New York, NY |isbn=1-58852-037-4 |pages=1–36}}</
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• Structured settlement factoring transaction
  ...ode section 5891 and any applicable state structured settlement protection law. ...tlement Factoring? The Market in Tort Claims Has Arrived|journal=Wisconsin Law Review|volume=2002|page=859|url=https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.co
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• Insurance bond
  Due to [[tax law]]s they are a common form of investment in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and some [[offshore financi
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• Adverse selection
  ...tion process is one part of [[underwriting]]. In many countries, insurance law incorporates an "utmost good faith" or ''[[uberrima fides]]'' doctrine, whi ...ts or his willingness-to-pay. Alternatively, models with interdependent or common values occur when the agent's type has a direct influence on the principal'
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• Condition of average
  ...f> '''''subject to average''''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lloyds.com/Common/Help/Glossary?page=2 |title=Average |work=Lloyd's Insurance Glossary |publi ...s of '''''total''''' destruction. Where partial destruction occurs (a more common occurrence than total destruction), ''Payout'' is pro rata in line with the
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• Insurance broker
  ...ones, and in most states, all insurance brokers generally are forbidden by law from providing their customers with rebates or inducements. ...rally has no contractual agreements with insurance carriers, and relies on common or direct methods of perfecting business transactions with insurance carrie
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• Extended warranty
  ...ious products, but [[automobile]]s and [[Small appliance|electronics]] are common examples. Warranties which are sold through retailers such as [[Best Buy]] [[Category:Contract law]]
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• Harvard University
  ...idence. This dual view of knowledge was in concert with the teachings of [[Common Sense Realism]] derived from Scottish philosophers [[Thomas Reid]] and [[Du ...ate School of Education|Graduate School of Education]] and the [[Cambridge Common]].
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• Brown University
  ...ed were doctoral 22 percent, master's 35 percent, medicine 28 percent, and law 14 percent.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> ...nistration.institutional-research/files/uploads/CDS_2012-2013_0.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2012-2013, Part C |publisher=Brown University}}</ref>
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• Steve Jobs
  ...activities.<ref name="sg" /> Although Jandali initially wanted to study [[law]], he eventually decided to study [[economics]] and [[political science]].< ...ocera|quote=While his health problems amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug,' they weren't life-threatening and he doesn't have a recurrence of can
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• Jeff Bezos
  ...ements by the Trump administration, in favour of overturning the antitrust law known as the [[Paramount Decree]], have been predicted to help Amazon acqui ...inquiries: can he admire the person, can the person raise the [[Status quo|common standard]], and under what circumstances could the person become exemplary.
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• Donald Trump
  ...jared-kushner-justice-department.html |title=Jared Kushner, Trump's Son-in-Law, Is Cleared to Serve as Adviser |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=Jan ...to pay off their debts. With Trump or his company as a defendant, the most common type of case involved personal injury cases at his hotels. In cases where t
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• Life insurance
  ...are often written into the contract to limit the liability of the insurer; common examples are claims relating to suicide, fraud, war, riot, and civil commot ...sum payment, in the event of a specified occurrence. A common form—more common in years past—of a protection policy design is term insurance.
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• Health insurance
  ...A plans are not subject to state laws. ERISA plans are governed by federal law under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Labor (USDOL). The specific ...families. These changes require legislative approval. A bill to change the law has been introduced but was not passed by the Senate.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht
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• Home insurance
  ...'s not on the list below, you are not covered. This type of policy is most common in countries with developing insurance markets and as protection for [[occu ...eive coverage. Fortunately, the "broad form" is designed to cover the most common forms of property damage.
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• Aetna
  ...ont Senator Joe Lieberman for Accepting Insurance Company Money |publisher=Common Dreams |date=2009-11-05 |accessdate=2011-02-12}}</ref> From 2005 through 20 ...Aetna's Prudential Health Plan $100,000 for violating Georgia's prompt pay law by delaying claims payments. Aetna companies had been fined four previous t
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• Allstate
  ...the mid-1950s nearly every state had some sort of financial responsibility law on its books.<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> ...The series, filmed in the style of a television drama, depicts the cast in common situations facing teens with respect to driving ([[Texting while driving]]
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• Berkshire Hathaway
  ...le= Buffett’s Annual Letter: Berkshire Records $29 Billion Gain From Tax Law | date= February 24, 2018 |first1=Peter |last1=Eavis |first2=Stephen |last2 ...Omaha indirectly acquired $400 million of the [[Toronto]]-based company's common shares as he gave a lifeline to the embattled mortgage lender [[Home Capita
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• Farmers Insurance Group
  ...lion and became the sole stockholder of the company's 68 million shares of common stock.<ref name='LABJ 2005-08-22'/><ref name='NYT 1988-08-25'>{{cite news | ...ington (2013), the company was alleged to have failed to comply with state law by not paying "diminished value," which is the loss in value suffered by ce
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• GEICO
  ...ented switching to GEICO as an easy alternative to such endeavors with the common line ".... there's an easier way to save money." ...ehearing-bid-in-bad-faith-case |date=January 10, 2017 }}, David Langhorne. Law 360. October 1, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2017</ref>
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• Knights of Columbus
  ...the law. The Knights of Columbus pledged an immediate $10,000 to fight the law and any additional funds necessary to defeat it.{{sfn|Kauffman|1982|p=283}} ...tal of $29&nbsp;million. During this time, the amount of money invested in common stock also increased.{{sfn|Kauffman|1982|p=378}}
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• MetLife
  ...Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act|2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law]] by proposing the application of an official label to MetLife as "[[System ...common and preferred stock were based on the closing price of MetLife’s common stock on October 29.<ref name=ALICOSTATS/> Upon completion of the purchase
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• Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
  ...repurchased by Nationwide Mutual in 2009. It had owned the majority of NFS common stock since it had gone public in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natio ...ople to pledge to become [[Insurance|policyholders]]. The first [[Agency (law)|agents]] managed to recruit ten times that number, and on April 14, 1926,
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• The Travelers Companies
  ...s B common stock Securities Litigation|last=|first=|date=|website=Stanford Law School|accessdate=April 19, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://securiti ...nd trained its employees to act on behalf of those subsidiaries. This is a common risk management strategy used by U.S. insurance groups. If any one company
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• Investment
  ...law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp|website=The Avalon Project; Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy}}</ref> The investment principles of both of these investors have points in common with the [[Kelly criterion]] for money management.<ref>{{cite web|title=The
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• Bank of America
  ...estment]] of 7.25% ''[[per annum]]'' and provided the option to purchase [[common stock]] at a price of $18 per share.<ref>{{cite news|first=Caroline |last=S ...tle=Wachtell, Shearman, Cravath on Bank of America-Merrill Deal |publisher=Law.com |date=September 15, 2008 |accessdate=October 17, 2010}}</ref> Around th
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• Broker-dealer
  ...cial services]], a '''broker-dealer''' is a [[natural person]], [[company (law)|company]] or other organization that engages in the business of trading [[ UK securities law uses the term '''[[intermediary]]''' to refer to businesses involved in the
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• Mutual fund
  ...investment company|website=Legal Information Institute|publisher=[[Cornell Law School]]}}</ref> The characterization of a fund's income is unchanged when Stock, or equity, funds invest in [[common stock]]s. Stock funds may focus on a particular area of the stock market, s
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• Real estate
  {{Property law}} ...used in jurisdictions whose legal system is derived from English [[common law]], such as [[India]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]], [[Canada]]
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• Net lease
  ...book|last1=Helewitz|first1=Jeffrey A.|title=Basic Real Estate and Property Law for Paralegals|edition=5th|date=2015|publisher=Wolters Kluwer|url=https://w ...nant is responsible for paying [[property tax]]es. These are generally not common.
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• NNN lease
  ...ften called the "three nets", are [[property taxes]], [[insurance]], and [[Common area maintenance charges|maintenance]].<ref name="womeninbusiness.about.com ==Common misconceptions==
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• Mortgage loan
  ...e mortgage lending|mortgages in general and their legal structure|Mortgage law|mortgage loans secured on ships|Ship mortgage|other uses|Mortgage (disambig ...se fails to abide by its terms. The word ''mortgage'' is derived from a "[[Law French]]" term used by [[Legal professions in England and Wales|English law
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• Real estate appraisal
  ...d definitions of value sought by a real estate appraisal. Some of the most common are: But the most common reason for value differing from price is that either the buyer or the selle
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• Real property
  {{Property law}} ...ures (also called [[Land improvement|improvements]] or [[Fixture (property law)|fixtures]]) integrated with or affixed to the land, including crops, build
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• Right to property
  ...tion and Revolution' (1965) [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1120512 65 Columbia Law Review 1]</ref> ...ast=Doebbler|first=Curtis|title=Introduction to International Human Rights Law|publisher=CD Publishing|year=2006|pages=141–142|url=https://books.google.
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• Specialized investment fund
  ...enlarging the distribution scope to “well-informed investors”. The SIF law significantly simplified the rules for setting up investment fund structure On 12 July 2013, the SIF regime was amended by the law on
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• Subprime mortgage crisis
  ...t |title=Get the Report: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission |website=fcic.law.stanford.edu |accessdate=5 October 2017}}</ref> Two [[proximate cause]]s we ...cret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008 |publisher=American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83 |page=253 |year=2009 |accessdate=2012-11-20}}</ref> Econom
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• Dubai
  ...ing levels some thought imprudent, Sheikh Rashid approached his brother in law, the Ruler of Qatar, for a loan to build the first bridge crossing Dubai's ...], [[caracal]], [[fennec fox|desert fox]], falcon and [[Arabian oryx]] are common in Dubai's desert. Dubai is on the migration path between Europe, Asia and
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• Kazakhstan
  ...n that provide safe haven for many rare and endangered plants and animals. Common plants are ''[[Astragalus]]'', ''[[Gagea]]'', ''[[Allium]]'', ''[[Carex]]'' Common mammals include the [[wolf]], [[red fox]], [[corsac fox]], [[moose]], [[arg
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• Matching
  * [[Matching (graph theory)]], in graph theory, a set of edges without common vertices * [[Matching law]], in behaviorism and learning, the matching law suggests that an animal's response rate to a scenario will be proportionate
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• Confounding
  [[File:Confounding.PNG|center|Causal diagram of Gender as common cause of Drug use and Recovery]] ...are called "Back-Door admissible" and may include variables which are not common causes of X and Y, but merely proxies thereof.
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