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PRONUNCIATION OF FLOATING CHARGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOATING CHARGE

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Floating charge is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FLOATING CHARGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Floating charge

A floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company or a limited liability partnership, which 'floats' or 'hovers' until the point at which it is converted into a fixed charge, at which point the charge attaches to specific assets of the company or LLP. This conversion into a fixed charge can be triggered by a number of events; inter alia, it has become an implied term in debentures that a cessation of the company's right to deal with the assets in the ordinary course of business leads to automatic crystallisation. Additionally, according to express terms of a typical loan agreement, default by the chargor is a trigger for crystallisation. Such defaults typically include non-payment, invalidity of any of the lending or security documents or the launch of insolvency proceedings. Floating charges can only be granted by companies or LLPs. If an individual person or a partnership was to purport to grant a floating charge, it would be void as a general assignment in bankruptcy.

Definition of floating charge in the English dictionary

The definition of floating charge in the dictionary is an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLOATING CHARGE

floating
floating assets
floating currency
floating currency rate
floating debt
floating decimal (point)
floating dock
floating dry dock
floating exchange rate
floating heart
floating island
floating point representation
floating policy
floating restaurant
floating rib
floating vote
floating voter
floating-point representation
floating-rate note
floatingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLOATING CHARGE

by and large
call-out charge
charge
corona discharge
delivery charge
depth charge
discharge
electric discharge
fixed charge
free of charge
glow discharge
in charge
negative charge
overcharge
precharge
recharge
reverse-charge
service charge
supercharge
surcharge
turbo-charge

Synonyms and antonyms of floating charge in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «floating charge» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLOATING CHARGE

Find out the translation of floating charge to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of floating charge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «floating charge» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

浮动押记
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

carga de flotación
570 millions of speakers

English

floating charge
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अस्थायी प्रभार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تهمة عائمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плавающий залог
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

garantia flutuante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাসমান চার্জ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

charge flottante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Caj terapung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Floating Charge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

浮動担保
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부동 충전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngambang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phí nổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிதக்கும் கட்டணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लोटिंग शुल्क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dalgalı şarj
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

floating charge
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Opłata pływające
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

плаваючий заставу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

floating charge
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυμαινόμενου επιτοκίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swaai aanklag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inteckning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flytende kostnad
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of floating charge

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOATING CHARGE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about floating charge

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOATING CHARGE»

Discover the use of floating charge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to floating charge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Securities Over Personalty
1 THE MODERN FLOATING CHARGE John Chandler I INTRODUCTION This chapter will look al the floating charge in its modern form as used in Australia and comment on some of the legal dilemmas it creates. It is the writer's experience that ...
Michael Gillooly, 1994
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Business Law
The bank's charge was a floating charge. This meant that of the £1 13,000 collected by the liquidator, £16,000 had to be set aside for the preference creditors. The bank was entitled to £97,000, not £113,000, as it ranked below the preferential ...
Jon Rush, Michael Ottley, 2006
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Project Finance: A Legal Guide
8-022 (g) The death of the featherweight floating charge. Prior to the coming into force of Pt 10 of the Enterprise Act, lenders had developed the featherweight floating charge as a means of ensuring that, although a borrower was commercially ...
Graham D. Vinter, Gareth Price, 2006
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Company Law and Secretarial Practice
Vs. Manila Railways, "A floating charge is ambulatory and shifting in its nature, hovering over and, so to speak, floating with the property which it is intended to affect until some event occurs, or some act is done, which causes it to settle and ...
Dr. Ashok Sharma
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Blackstone's Statutes on Company Law 2014-2015
(4) Interest accrues, in respect of a floating charge which after 16th November 1972 attaches to the property of the company, until payment of the sum due under the charge is made. 464 Ranking of floating charges (1) Subject to subsection (2), ...
Derek French, 2014
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Blackstone's Statutes on Company Law 2013-2014
(4) Interest accrues, in respect of a floating charge which after 16th November 1972 attaches to the property of the company, until payment of the sum due under the charge is made. 464 Ranking of floating charges (1) Subject to subsection (2), ...
Derek French, 2013
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Annotated Companies Legislation
CA85.12 and 176 of the Insolvency Act. In particular, section 175 has the effect that preferential debts25 will be paid in priority to the claims of a holder of a floating charge.26 Subsection (4) makes clear that interest accrues on a debt secured ...
John Birds, Robert Miles, Robert Hildyard, 2010
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A Text Book Of Company Law
(c) The company cannot create a second floating charge, over the same property, having priority over the first floating charge. However, the subsequent pari pasu ( i.e., without any priority of one over the other) floating charge can be created ...
Gonga P P S, 2002
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Sri Lanka Company Laws and Regulations Handbook
(6) Without limiting the provisions contained in subsection (3) of section 427, where land owned by a company is subject to a floating charge and to a fixed security which has been registered underthe Registration of Documents Ordinance ...
Ibpus.com, International Business Publications, USA, 2008
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Mayson, French & Ryan on Company Law
See further A Walters, 'Priority of the floating charge in corporate insolvency: Griffiths v Yorkshire Bankplc' (1995) 16 Co Law 291. Where a company's property is subject to two or more floating charges, crystallisation of one of them may cause ...
Derek French, Stephen Mayson, Christopher Ryan, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOATING CHARGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term floating charge is used in the context of the following news items.
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Revenue's loss a gain for struggling firms - The Irish Times
“If the company fails, the bank can crystallise the floating charge and rank ahead of the preferential creditors, leading to increased certainty on ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
2
Crystallisation of floating charges – Supreme Court decision
The Companies had entered into various debentures with Bank of Ireland (the Bank) in 2005 which included floating charge security over the ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
3
Banks create money while peer-to-peer lenders recycle it
The security, by the way, is a fixed and floating charge over the business — not a mortgage on the business owner's house, which is what ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
4
Banks win greater protection in company liquidations - The Irish Times
A floating charge, which applies generally to movable assets, ranks below preferential creditors in the event of a liquidation. The holder of a ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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If banks are disrupted, who will create money?
The security, by the way, is a fixed and floating charge over the business – not a mortgage on the business owner's house, which is what banks ... «Business Spectator, Jul 15»
6
Pension fund could scupper Cumbrian firm's £8.2m takeover bid
... and to future accrual from existing members in April 30 2012, when its trustees were granted a floating charge over the company's assets. «News & Star, Jul 15»
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Has Larry Howai bungled the CLF resolution?
Does this $11 billion claim to the statutory funds of the insurance companies not constitute a fixed and floating charge over the assets of the ... «Trinidad Guardian, Jul 15»
8
ATO garnishee notices and secured creditors
The prime example of this is when the lender holds a registered security interest over the circulating assets of the taxpayer (a floating charge in ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
9
When Worlds Collide: Reconciling Inventory Financing Principles …
If there is an event of default (howsoever that is defined), then the floating charge crystallises into a fixed charge over the inventory then in store ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
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New pig breeding company buys ACMC assets from administration
This would come from what is known as the “prescribed part”, a proportion of a floating charge on the assets of a company in administration ... «FarmersWeekly, Jun 15»

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