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Business Definition for: Acceleration Clause

  • a section of a contract which details how a loan may be required to be repaid early if the borrower defaults on other clauses of the contract

Wiktionary Definition for: Acceleration Clause

  • (''law''): a provision in a contract that makes all obligations to be performed under the contract due immediately upon a specific occurrence, such as a breach
  • Ex: Joe was mortified to learn that his failure to make a scheduled car payment triggered an '''acceleration clause''' requiring that the entire balance due on the car must be paid immediately.

Additional Resources

Religion in the military: navigating the channel between the religion clauses
I. INTRODUCTION II. OVERVIEW OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, FREE EXERCISE, AND FREE SPEECH CLAUSES A. The Establishment Clause B. The Free Exercise Clause 1. Laws Aimed at...
Tags: accommodation, Air Force, Captain, Church, Goldman, Government, Marsh, Santa, SOFTWARE, U.S.
Research articles 2007-03-22
F5 Delivers a Quantum Leap in Web Application Acceleration with New Release of BIG-IP® WebAccelerator™
New release extends F5's leadership in application acceleration by delivering advanced performance, unmatched flexibility and secure acceleration of SSL; Provides seamless, end-to-end acceleration services to any user regardless of location
Tags: Quantum Corp., Web application
Research articles 2007-07-30
Legal note: The reawakening of the compensation clause in the twenty-first century
As part of the separation of powers in the federal government, Article III, I of the United States Constitution guarantees federal judges "Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in office:" The purpose of this clause, often referred to as the Compensation Clause, is to minimize the risk...
Tags: adjustment, Benefits, compensation, Government, judge, salary, statute, U.S. Congress, Williams
Research articles 2002-01-01
Santa Comes Early This Year in Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Video Game Inspired by the Upcoming "The Santa Clause 3" Film Available for Game Boy Advance
Tags: The Walt Disney Co.
Research articles 2006-11-01
International law and constitutional interpretation: the commander in chief clause reconsidered.
The Commander in Chief Clause is a difficult, underexplored area of constitutional interpretation. It is also a context in which international law is often mentioned, but not fully defended, as a possible method of interpreting the Constitution. This Article analyzes why the Commander in Chief Clause...
Tags: authorization, Cir, Continental, president, Stat, statute, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress, vessel
Research articles 2007-10-01
Non-binding arbitration clause is enforceable under FAA
Non-binding arbitration clause is enforceable under FAA. Wolsey, Ltd. v. Foodmaker, Inc., _ F.3d _, No. 96-56345, 1998 WL 257282 (9th Cir. May 19, 1998). The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an agreement containing a non-binding arbitration clause is enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act FAA, 9 U.S.C....
Tags: arbitration, FAA
Research articles 1998-08-01
Yes, There Is A Sanity Clause - Statistical Data Included
MARKETS | A year after the Nasdaq's peak, we reveal FIVE LESSONS of one of the great manias. WHAT'S THIS?" asks Chico. "It's in every contract," replies Groucho. "That's what they call the sanity clause." Chico laughs and shoots back: "You can't fool me. There ain't no sanity clause!"...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Intel Corp., Investment, investor, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., stock
Research articles 2001-04-01
Congress has perverted 'Commerce Clause'
Several weeks ago, under the title "Is It Permissible?" I discussed how Congress systematically abuses the Constitution's "welfare clause" to control our lives in ways that would have been an abomination to the Framers. Quite a few readers pointed to my omission of Congress' companion tool to circumvent both the...
Tags: FINANCE, Government, Insurance, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2003-11-05
Reconciling what the First Amendment forbids with what the Copyright Clause permits: a summary explanation and review. (Conference on the Public Domain)
We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1) I INTRODUCTION At least since an early article by Professor Melvin Nimmer in the 1970s, (2) there has been some...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2003-01-01
Virtues of the War Clause.
Critics of the war clause contend that congressional preeminence in war making as commanded by the Constitution is no longer relevant to international politics. In a word, the constitutional arrangement for war and peace is obsolete. In spite of those criticisms, it is argued here that the values underlying the...
Tags: Hamilton, Merlin, president, theory, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2000-12-01
Judging partisan gerrymanders under the elections clause.
The Supreme Court has consistently decried the lack of standards for adjudicating partisan gerrymandering claims, most recently in last Term's Vieth v. Jubelirer. But it has ignored the potential for developing standards under the Elections Clause, which it held in Cook v. Gralike to bar attempts by state legislatures to...
Tags: Alexander, Cook, Government, Massachusetts, regulation, Republican, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2005-03-01
When is the Senate in recess for purposes of the Recess Appointments Clause?
The Recess Appointments Clause of the US Constitution was intended to allow the President to appoint officials without seeking Senate advise-and-consent only when the Senate was in recess after its yearly session had ended. The power to bypass the confirmation process has been exercised by recent Presidents during brief recesses...
Tags: Bush, Carter, Cir, commission, nomination, Phillips, president, Pub, Richard, Treasury, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Walsh
Research articles 1994-06-01
Siemens Mobile Acceleration Extends Investment Focus to All Communications Technologies; Subsidiary Changes Name to Siemens Acceleration in Communications
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Siemens Mobile Acceleration SMAC, the leading backer and investor for early-stage wireless companies, today announced it has extended its business scope by broadening its investment focus from wireless technologies to cover the entire communications sector. Additionally, it has adopted a new name, Siemens Acceleration in Communications,...
Tags: mobile, Siemens AG
Research articles 2005-03-14
Consent to sue clause violates public policy
Consent to sue clause violates public policy. Peterman v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 961 P.2d 487 (Colo. 1998). The Colorado Supreme Court held a consent to sue clause in an automobile insurance contract was void as against public policy. Here, the Petermans' car was hit by an uninsured...
Tags: arbitration, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
Research articles 1998-11-01
Accelerating WAN Applications: Transaction And File Transfer Acceleration
Latency causes havoc on wide area networks by causing increased delays and under-utilization of links. When lost packets, latency, and under-utilization of bandwidth bog down transport and application response times, adding bandwidth to already under-utilized links is useless. What is needed is a combination of transaction acceleration and file transfer...
Tags: Acceleration, Packeteer, WANs, Networking
White papers 2005-05-01
Consequences of the Rehnquist Court's federalism decisions for congressional lawmaking.
Scholars generally concur that with its federalism decisions, the Rehnquist Court has mounted a significant challenge to established constitutional doctrines, whether in regard to the commerce clause, enforcement clause (Section 5) of the Fourteenth Amendment, Tenth Amendment, or Eleventh Amendment. (1) The commerce clause was the...
Tags: Government, scholar, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2004-03-22
EU eyes compromise after neutrals snub defence vow
BRUSSELS AFP ? The EU's Italian presidency proposed a compromise "mutual defence" clause for a new constitution to tackle concerns by neutral states opposed to being forced to help a partner under attack. Austria, Ireland, Finland and Sweden have held out against the proposed clause, modelled on a NATO...
Tags: Agence France-Presse
Research articles 2003-12-09
Villa confirm Baros buy-out clause
BIRMINGHAM, England AFP — Milan Baros can walk away from Aston Villa in the close season as long as a potential buyer comes up with enough cash to activate his buy-out clause at Villa Park. Villa's operations director Steve Stride confirmed Tuesday the Czech international forward has a clause...
Tags: Agence France-Presse
Research articles 2006-03-28
Clause and effect: a Commerce Clause case may limit Congress's power
Gun-ownership cases usually revolve around Second Amendment issues. But United States v. Lopez, currently under consideration by the Supreme Court, involves the 10th Amendment and the Constitution's Commerce Clause. Because Lopez may strongly limit Congress's ability to invoke its right to regulate interstate commerce, the decision may be one of...
Tags: Government, Regulations, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1995-04-01
Silver Peak Wins Techworld's Prestigious "Acceleration Product of the Year" Award
Silver Peak Systems ( www.silver-peak.com ), a leading provider of scalable Wide Area Network WAN acceleration solutions, today announced that its NX-7500 appliance has been selected "Acceleration Product of the Year" by Techworld, an IDG publication based in the UK. The Silver Peak solution was chosen over WAN acceleration...
Tags: International Data Group, network, NETWORKING, WANs
Research articles 2006-07-12
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