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preferred stock

Defined in 5 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

United States Code

26 U.S.C. § 351 — under this section (2 versions over time)

The term “preferred stock” means stock which is limited and preferred as to dividends and does not participate in corporate growth to any significant extent. Stock shall not be treated as participating in corporate growth to any significant extent unless there is a real and meaningful likelihood of the shareholder actually participating in the earnings and growth of the corporation. If there is not a real and meaningful likelihood that dividends beyond any limitation or preference will actually be paid, the possibility of such payments will be disregarded in determining whether stock is limited and preferred as to dividends.

45 U.S.C. § 1303 — for the purposes of this chapter

the term “preferred stock” means any class or series of preferred stock, and any class or series of common stock having liquidation and dividend rights and preferences superior to the common stock of the Corporation offered for sale under section 1312 of this title;

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Corporate stock entitled to priority in payment of dividends, or to a higher rate of dividends.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ordinary corporate stock with a right to a dividend before any should be made upon the common stock. See 73 Am. St. Rep. 227, note.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

See Stock. PR £ F ET. In French Law. A chief officer invested with the superintendence of the administration of the laws in each department. Merlin, Rtpei't.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

See Stock.

Defined under Preferred in Black's Law Dictionary.