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Record 1 2015-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Commercial Law
  • National Accounting
DEF

A business which has operated as a corporation without completing the legal requirements, often in the period just before formal incorporation.

OBS

There are some aggregate bodies which are not complete corporations, and are therefore sometimes called quasi-corporations; such are churchwardens ... and trade unions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Droit commercial
  • Comptabilité nationale
CONT

Le nouveau système de comptabilité nationale distingue les sociétés et quasi-sociétés [...]

OBS

Une quasi-société (QS) possède une personnalité morale mais pas de personnalité juridique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos comerciales y otros (Derecho)
  • Comercio exterior
  • Derecho mercantil
  • Contabilidad nacional
PHR

cuasisociedad pública.

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Record 2 1996-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Characterology
  • Epidermis and Dermis
DEF

They are mountains from which the streams rush into the plain of the palm, or circle around them.

CONT

Reading of character and divination of the future by interpretation of lines and elevations of the palm of the hand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Caractérologie
  • Épiderme et derme
DEF

Petits bourrelets plus ou moins charnus situés à la base des doigts dans le haut de la paume, et par la charnière entre les phalanges des doigts et les métacarpes.

Spanish

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