Perfection appropriate filing or registering or other formalaction of a security interest in order to protect one's
security interest in another's property against all other
Cred itors
Performance completion of obligations required by
Contract
Personal liability state of being legally obliged out of
one's own personal assets
Personal property (also chattels in common law) things
That are moveable (as opposed to real property) and
Capable of being owned
Petitioner (US) person who brings a petition to a court,
Especially on appeal
Picketing demonstration outside a place of work in
Which people congregate to dissuade others from
Entering the building, usually done in attempt to
Persuade another party to meet certain demands. It is
Often done during a strike.
Pleading formal written statement setting forth the
Cause of action or the defence in a case
Pledge property which is security for a debt or obligation
Pledgee person who receives a pledge, or the creditor in
A secured transaction
Pledgor person who gives a pledge, or the debtor in a
Secured transaction
Possessory type of security interest whereby the creditor
Has the right to control the property
Predatory pricing pricing a product so low - for example,
Below its production cost - as to eliminate competition
Pre-emption rights (UK) rights of shareholders to
Maintain their proportionate ownership in a company
By purchasing newly issued stock before it is offered
To the public (US preemptive rights)
Preference shares (UK) shares that are given preference
In dividend entitlements over ordinary shares, but
Usually do not carry any voting rights (US preferred
Shares)
Price-fixing conduct of setting a price for a product
Which is contrary to workings of supply and demand,
And therefore contrary to the free market
Priority right to enforce a claim before others
Priority creditor creditor who is given priority over other
creditors, or has first claim over the debtor's assets
Privity of contract relationship between parties to a
Contract
Pro forma (Latin) as a matter of form
Pro rata (Latin) proportionally
Profit-and-Ioss account (UK) statement summarising a
company's revenues and expenses over a period of
Time (US profit-and-Ioss statement or income
Statement)
Promisee person to whom a promise, or an assurance
That something will or will not be done, is made
Promisor person who makes a promise or an assurance
That they will or will not do something
Promissory note formal unconditional written note made
And signed by a person obligating him or her to pay a
Specified sum of money to another specified person or
To the bearer of the document
Punitive damages (also exemplary damages)
Compensation designed to punish the breaching party
For conduct found to be reprehensible, e.g. fraud
Pupillage (UK) one year of apprenticeship to become a
Barrister, which follows the completion of the Bar
Vocational Course
Pur autre vie estate granted only for the life of someone
Other than the grantee
Quasi-security similar to security, except the creditor has
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