See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)  , counting, reckoning, especially of moneys paid and received, hence a statement made as to the See also:

• RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt and See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment of moneys; also any statement as to acts or See also:

• CON

con-duct, or quite simply any narrative See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report of events, &c . A further sense-development is that of esteem, See also:

• CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration . As a stock-See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange See also:

• TERM

term " See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account " is used in several senses . (i) The periodical settlements occurring, in See also:

• LONDON

London, monthly for See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government and a few other first-class securities, and fortnightly for all others . The See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement extends over four days in See also:

• MINING

mining shares and three days in other securities . The first See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day is the carry-over, " See also:

• CONTANGO

contango," or making-up, day, on which speculative commitments are carried over, or continued: that is, the bulls, who have bought stock for the rise, arrange the See also:

• RATE

rate of See also:

• INTEREST

interest that they have to give on their stock to a moneylender, or See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear, who will pay for it or take it in for them; and the bears, who have sold for the fall, arrange the rate that they receive from the bulls or, if the stock is scarce and oversold, the backwardation or rate that they have to pay to holders of the stock who will lend it them to enable them to See also:

• COMPLETE

complete their bargains . On the second day, called See also:

• TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)

ticket-day or name day, a ticket giving the name and address of the ultimate buyer and the See also:

• FIRM

firm which will pay for the stock is passed through the various intermediaries to the ultimate seller, so that the actual See also:

• TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

transfer of the stock can be made directly . In the mining See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market the passing of names takes two days . On the last day, account day, pay day or settling day, cheques are paid to meet speculative See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences, or against the delivering of stock . (2) The See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period between two settlements . A nineteen-day account is one in which nineteen days elapse between one pay-day and another . (3) The See also:

• VOLUME

volume or See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of commitments .

A speculator is said to have a large account open when he has dealt heavily either for the rise or fall . A See also:

• BULL
• BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)
• BULL, JOHN (c. 1562–1628)
• BULL, OLE BORNEMANN (18ro-188o)

bull account exists in a stock or See also:

• GROUP

group of See also:

• STOCKS

stocks when it or they have been bought for the rise by a large number of operators; in the contrary See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, when there have been heavy sales for the fall, a bear account is See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed . ACCOUNTANT-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

GENERAL, formerly an officer in the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court of See also:

• CHANCERY

Chancery, who received all moneys lodged in court, and by whom they were deposited in See also:

• BANK

bank and disbursed . The See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office was abolished by the Chancery Funds See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1872, and the duties transferred to the paymaster-general (q.v.) .