Preference Shares
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A name sometimes given in England to preferred stock.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Same as Preferred stock.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Shares of a corporation or a joint-stock company entitling their holders to a preferential dividend and sometimes to priority on the division of the assets. See Stock.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A term used in E&glish law to designate a new issue of shares of stock in a company, which, to facilitate the disposal of them, are accorded a priority or preference over the original shares. Such shares entitle their holders to a preferential dividend, so that a holder of them is entitled to have the whole of his dividend (or so much thereof as represents the extent to which his shares are, by the constitution of the company, to be deemed preference shares) paid before any dividend is paid to the ordinary shareholders. Mozley & Whitley.