legal reserve
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of legal reserve
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Lovejoy thought about the Brazilian law and realized that the legal reserve could provide a way to probe these questions.
From Nature • Apr. 17, 2013
Last week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the average legal reserve is approximately 10%, the "excess" will suffice for additional deposits up to ten times that surplus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some 365 legal reserve life insurance companies in the U. S. have assets totaling over $28,000,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The land is mine, all right enough, but is no part of my available assets—it's my "legal reserve."
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
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