Word Meanings - PARNELLISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The policy or principles of the Parnellites.

POLICY
1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
IMPOLICY
The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
MISPOLICY
Wrong policy; impolicy.
TERM POLICY
A policy of term insurance.
VALUED POLICY
A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.
VALUED-POLICY LAW
A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.
BLANKET MORTGAGE; BLANKET POLICY
One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.
TIME POLICY
A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.