TagPractice of law

kiting

kiting  n.— «To avoid prosecution from registered brand owners, some of these online pharmacies are using a practice called “kiting.” Kiting is when a company registers and uses a domain for the ICANN-allowed grace period of...

front-run

front-run  v. phr.— «Prosecutors allege day traders would buy or sell shares in advance of anticipated price movements, generating more than $600,000 in profits between January 2002 and February 2004. Mahaffy said no one ever told him they...

wash sale

wash sale  n.— «To tackle the problem, the European market set up a system that allowed market participants to simultaneously liquidate a Eurodollar position on the CME and rebuild the same one on Euronext.liffe. However, a CME rule...