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  2. Abstract (summary) - Wikipedia

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    An abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding, or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper's purpose. [1]

  3. Executive summary - Wikipedia

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    An executive summary (or management summary, sometimes also called speed read) is a short document or section of a document produced for business purposes. It summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all.

  4. Smith v. Van Gorkom - Wikipedia

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    After the court's decision to remand the case back to the Court of Chancery the defendants agreed to a settlement. [5] The directors agreed to pay $23.5 million in damages, of which $10 million was covered by insurance with Pritzker then paying the remainder of the settlement even though he was not a party to the lawsuit. [ 5 ]

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    The name or names given in the first sentence does not always match the article title. This page gives advice on the contents of the first sentence, not the article title. By the design of Wikipedia's software, an article can have only one title. When this title is a name, significant alternative names for the topic should be mentioned in the ...

  6. Summary order - Wikipedia

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    In law, a summary order is a determination made by a court without issuing a legal opinion. This disposition is also known as a nonopinion, summary opinion, affirmance without opinion, unpublished order, disposition without opinion, or abbreviated disposition. It is not to be confused with summary judgment, which means a decision without trial.

  7. Latec Investments Ltd v Hotel Terrigal Pty Ltd - Wikipedia

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    Mere equity is an equity which must be made good before an equitable interest can be held to exist. It is distinct from, because logically antecedent to, the equitable interest. The defence of bona fide purchase without notice can only succeed against the equity not the consequential equitable interest.

  8. Wikipedia talk:Summary style - Wikipedia

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    When a section is written in summary style, should it's name closely reflect the title of the article? This was the subject of a dispute over a summary-style section in the article Embassy of the United States, Mogadishu about its evacuation, for which the main article is Operation Eastern Exit, and whether the section title should be the operation name or a descriptive term such as "Closure ...

  9. Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International - Wikipedia

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    Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), was a 2014 United States Supreme Court [1] decision about patent eligibility of business method patents. [2] The issue in the case was whether certain patent claims for a computer-implemented, electronic escrow service covered abstract ideas, which would make the claims ineligible for patent protection.